California · Private foundation
Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family 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.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 133
- Grants FY2025
- 138
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 108 to 171
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $216k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 129 | $155k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 138 | $150k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 128 | $147k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 108 | $229k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 171 | $270k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 155 | $246k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 157 | $164k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 146 | $161k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Emanu-El | $302,904 | 9 | n/a |
| Jewish Film Institute | $174,964 | 6 | 3% |
| Hairtostay | $75,040 | 9 | 2% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $45,450 | 9 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $43,000 | 9 | 0% |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | $42,747 | 8 | 0% |
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | $39,067 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula | $29,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of San Francisco | $22,160 | 9 | 0% |
| Upstart Bay Area | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 215 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 145 recipients with no EIN on record ($381k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · McNabb Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Swig Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation with peer funders
About Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation
- How much does Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation give?
- Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation reported 133 grants totaling $158,223 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 108 and 171 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Religion (23%), Health (10%).
- Who are Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Emanu-El ($303k), Jewish Film Institute ($175k), Hairtostay ($75k).
- Does Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family 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 Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, Koret Foundation.
- Where is Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation based?
- Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation is based in CA.
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