California · Private foundation
Ranae Desantis 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.
- $403k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Ranae Desantis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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 | 20 | $403k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $731k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $630k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $533k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $494k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $530k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $464k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $595k | 60% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $190,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Grades of Green Inc | $186,059 | 8 | 7% |
| Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet | $177,600 | 8 | 3% |
| Furrever Cat and Kitten Rescue | $171,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Population Connection | $158,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Youth Science Institute | $157,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Montalvo Association | $157,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 | $149,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Hillbrook School | $133,725 | 4 | 0% |
| Pivotal Connections | $130,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($935k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ranae Desantis 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Intuit Foundation
How this is measured
About Ranae Desantis Foundation
- How much does Ranae Desantis Foundation give?
- Ranae Desantis Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $403,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ranae Desantis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (14%), Animals (10%).
- Who are Ranae Desantis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society Silicon Valley ($190k), Grades of Green Inc ($186k), Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet ($178k).
- Does Ranae Desantis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ranae Desantis 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 Ranae Desantis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation.
- Where is Ranae Desantis Foundation based?
- Ranae Desantis Foundation is based in CA.
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