California · Private foundation
Payette River Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Payette River Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 10 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.5M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $800k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.1M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $628k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation | $2,500,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Oakland Promise | $1,367,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Payette Land Trust Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 58% |
| Bridge Housing Corporation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Interim Inc | $675,000 | 3 | 2% |
| All Saints Episcopal Day School | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Terner Housing Innovation Labs Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Uli Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northern Light School | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation | $2,500,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Oakland Promise | $1,367,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Payette Land Trust Inc | $1,250,000 | 2 | 58% |
| Bridge Housing Corporation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Interim Inc | $675,000 | 3 | 2% |
| All Saints Episcopal Day School | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Terner Housing Innovation Labs Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Uli Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Northern Light School | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The York School | $95,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Mary's Center | $81,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Urban Ed Academy | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Idaho Conservation League Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Notre Dame de Namur University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Idaho Coalition of Land Trusts | $30,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Dientes Community Dental Care | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Watsonville Wetlands Watch | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Teach for America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of San Francisco | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Payette River Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Policylink · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Payette River Foundation
- How much does Payette River Foundation give?
- Payette River Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,653,740 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Payette River Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Payette River Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation ($2.5M), Oakland Promise ($1.4M), Payette Land Trust Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Payette River Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Payette River Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Payette River Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Payette River Foundation based?
- Payette River Foundation is based in CA.
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