California · Private foundation
Ramp Foundation
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.
- $827k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 24
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Ramp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $557k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $638k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $437k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $292k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $411k | 94% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $438k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hellman Foundation | $279,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Vitalogy Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Conservation Society of California | $155,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Theatreworks Silicon Valley | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The 19th News | $53,000 | 3 | 0% |
| McCarter Theatre Company | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Electronic Privacy Information Center | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($512k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ramp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Rsf Social Finance Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Ramp Foundation
- How much does Ramp Foundation give?
- Ramp Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $826,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Ramp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Arts & Culture (11%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are Ramp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Berkeley Repertory Theatre ($400k), Hellman Foundation ($279k), Vitalogy Foundation ($250k).
- Does Ramp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ramp 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 Ramp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Ramp Foundation based?
- Ramp Foundation is based in CA.
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