California · Private foundation
Proper Giving
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.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,170
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,965
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $74k
- 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 Proper Giving funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 15 | $61k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $28k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $56k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $208k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $45k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $14k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The People Concern | $35,355 | 3 | 0% |
| Path | $32,940 | 3 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $29,111 | 5 | 0% |
| The Mission La | $17,257 | 2 | 1% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $14,591 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $12,392 | 1 | n/a |
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $10,778 | 6 | 0% |
| Caritas of Austin | $8,253 | 4 | 0% |
| California Fire Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Anthonys | $5,756 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The People Concern | $35,355 | 3 | 0% |
| Path | $32,940 | 3 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $29,111 | 5 | 0% |
| The Mission La | $17,257 | 2 | 1% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $14,591 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $12,392 | 1 | n/a |
| Larkin Street Youth Services | $10,778 | 6 | 0% |
| Caritas of Austin | $8,253 | 4 | 0% |
| California Fire Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Anthonys | $5,756 | 2 | n/a |
| Austin Pets Alive Inc | $5,176 | 5 | 0% |
| Civic Center Community Benefit District | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Canine Rescue Club Inc | $4,828 | 1 | n/a |
| St Anthony Foundation | $4,493 | 3 | n/a |
| Food in Need of Distribution Inc | $4,486 | 2 | 0% |
| Shoal Creek Conservancy | $3,490 | 1 | 1% |
| Alonzo King Lines Ballet | $3,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Upward Bound House | $2,163 | 2 | 0% |
| Westside Food Bank | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children - Austin | $1,916 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc | $1,163 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Place for Youth Inc | $1,036 | 1 | 0% |
| Partnerships for Children | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Concerned Citizens of Montauk | $426 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Change the Ref Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Proper Giving 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Proper Giving
- How much does Proper Giving give?
- Proper Giving reported 15 grants totaling $60,716 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Proper Giving fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (42%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Proper Giving's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The People Concern ($35k), Path ($33k), Best Friends Animal Society ($29k).
- Does Proper Giving fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Proper Giving 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 Proper Giving?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Proper Giving based?
- Proper Giving is based in CA.
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