California · Private foundation
Paramitas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Paramitas Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,470,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Paramitas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $618k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $139k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $157k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $458k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $519k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $309k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $366k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harker School | $615,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $130,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $102,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Global Partnerships | $82,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lakeside School | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Yun Lin Temple | $73,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Water First International | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harker School | $615,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $450,000 | 9 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $190,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation | $130,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $102,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Global Partnerships | $82,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lakeside School | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Yun Lin Temple | $73,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Water First International | $26,500 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buddhist Society of Amercia | $17,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Formosan Association for Public Affairs | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| GO2 For Lung Cancer | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tianmu Education Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Harvard Magazine Inc | $1,040 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paramitas Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Paramitas Foundation
- How much does Paramitas Foundation give?
- Paramitas Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $2,237,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Paramitas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Science & Tech (24%), Health (12%).
- Who are Paramitas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Harker School ($615k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($500k), University of Washington Foundation ($450k).
- Does Paramitas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Paramitas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Paramitas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Paramitas Foundation based?
- Paramitas Foundation is based in CA.
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