California · Private foundation
Read to Achieve 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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $240
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,270
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 82% of the organizations Read to Achieve Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 12 | $8k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $8k | 82% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $15k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $18k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $6k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $4k | 91% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIEE Inc | $11,919 | 2 | 0% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $5,599 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $4,667 | 6 | 0% |
| The Family Giving Tree | $2,624 | 4 | 0% |
| Bring Me a Book Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $620 | 1 | 0% |
| 300 Stewart Avenue Corporation | $583 | 1 | 0% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $513 | 1 | 0% |
| Project H O P E Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| California Fire Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIEE Inc | $11,919 | 2 | 0% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $5,599 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $4,667 | 6 | 0% |
| The Family Giving Tree | $2,624 | 4 | 0% |
| Bring Me a Book Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $620 | 1 | 0% |
| 300 Stewart Avenue Corporation | $583 | 1 | 0% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $513 | 1 | 0% |
| Project H O P E Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| California Fire Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Precious Dreams Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Coalition for Clean Air | $385 | 2 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Halo Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Cool the Earth Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $158 | 1 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| North Shore Animal League America Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Gofundmeorg | $58 | 1 | 0% |
| Goodwill of Silicon Valley Inc | $17 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Read to Achieve 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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Read to Achieve Foundation
- How much does Read to Achieve Foundation give?
- Read to Achieve Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $8,193 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Read to Achieve Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), International (27%), Animals (13%).
- Who are Read to Achieve Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: CIEE Inc ($12k), Humane Society Silicon Valley ($6k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($5k).
- Does Read to Achieve Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Read to Achieve 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 Read to Achieve Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Read to Achieve Foundation based?
- Read to Achieve Foundation is based in CA.
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