How much does Penney Family Fund give?

Penney Family Fund reported 23 grants totaling $414,452 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Penney Family Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), Environment (20%), Public Benefit (18%).

Who are Penney Family Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Momentum Community Inc ($130k), Georgia Shift Inc ($130k), Chinese Progressive Association ($130k).

Does Penney Family Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Penney Family Fund 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 Penney Family Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Tides Foundation.

Where is Penney Family Fund based?

Penney Family Fund is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

Penney Family Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$414k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 20
Organizations funded FY2023: 60%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 28; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $7.0M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Penney Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	17	$389k	12%
FY2023	20	$857k	60%
FY2022	18	$301k	67%
FY2021	28	$624k	39%
FY2020	22	$300k	27%
FY2019	25	$270k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$720kEnvironment$566kPublic Benefit$532kEducation$201kPhilanthropy$193kYouth Development$163kCommunity Improvement$141kHuman Services$86kOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Momentum Community Inc	$130,000	5	4%
Georgia Shift Inc	$130,000	4	17%
Chinese Progressive Association	$130,000	5	0%
The Ole Education Fund	$115,000	3	2%
One Arizona	$92,000	3	0%
We Are Down Home	$90,000	2	1%
Rural Arizona Engagement	$90,000	2	3%
Momentum Alliance	$90,000	4	10%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido	$85,000	2	2%
Naeva	$85,000	2	4%

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All grantees of Penney Family Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Momentum Community Inc	$130,000	5	4%
Georgia Shift Inc	$130,000	4	17%
Chinese Progressive Association	$130,000	5	0%
The Ole Education Fund	$115,000	3	2%
One Arizona	$92,000	3	0%
We Are Down Home	$90,000	2	1%
Rural Arizona Engagement	$90,000	2	3%
Momentum Alliance	$90,000	4	10%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido	$85,000	2	2%
Naeva	$85,000	2	4%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$80,000	3	1%
Instituto Lab	$80,000	2	3%
Community Water Center	$75,000	3	1%
Oregon Rural Action Inc	$75,000	3	12%
Environmental Health Coalition	$75,000	4	1%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$60,000	3	1%
Beyond Toxics	$60,000	3	4%
CAUSE Inc	$55,000	3	6%
The Black Organizing Project Inc	$50,000	3	1%
Khmer Girls in Action	$50,000	3	1%
Somos Siembra	$50,000	2	2%
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians	$40,000	3	1%
Alliance for Youth Organizing	$40,000	3	0%
Sowega Rising	$40,000	1	6%
Our Children Oregon	$37,500	2	1%
Imagine North Carolina First	$30,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$30,000	3	0%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico	$25,000	1	2%
Partnership for Southern Equity	$25,000	1	0%
Southwest Organizing Project	$25,000	1	1%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund	$25,000	1	0%
Center for Civic Policy	$20,000	1	0%
Institute for Local Innovations Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund	$15,000	2	0%
Southern Conservation Partners Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Sogorea Te Land Trust	$12,702	3	0%
Oregon Foster Youth Connection	$12,500	1	n/a
The Bail Project Inc	$10,000	1	0%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Lomakatsi Restoration Project	$5,000	1	0%
Californians For Justice Education Fund	$5,000	1	0%
Latino Network	$5,000	1	0%
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising	$5,000	1	22%
Apano Communities United Fund	$5,000	1	0%
Brown Hope	$5,000	1	0%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc	$3,000	1	0%
March on Maryland	$2,500	1	0%
Center for Environmental Health	$2,000	1	0%
The Watershed Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%
N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc	$500	1	n/a
The Sequoyah Fund Inc	$200	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($492k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Penney Family Fund supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC60.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · Marguerite Casey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · The San Francisco Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Penney Family Fund

How much does Penney Family Fund give?: Penney Family Fund reported 23 grants totaling $414,452 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Penney Family Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), Environment (20%), Public Benefit (18%).
Who are Penney Family Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Momentum Community Inc ($130k), Georgia Shift Inc ($130k), Chinese Progressive Association ($130k).
Does Penney Family Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Penney Family Fund 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 Penney Family Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Penney Family Fund based?: Penney Family Fund is based in CA.