California · Private foundation
Ray and Janet Scherr 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.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 16 | $73k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $120k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $64k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $75k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $73k | 79% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $146k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $119k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts | $70,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $35,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sos Children's Villages-Usa Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Art Center College of Design | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunrise Rotary Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($397k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ray and Janet Scherr 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: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation
- How much does Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation give?
- Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts ($70k), Semper Fi & America's Fund ($45k), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($36k).
- Does Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray and Janet Scherr 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 Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Conrad N Hilton Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation based?
- Ray and Janet Scherr Foundation is based in CA.
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