California · Private foundation
Rise Up 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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,837
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations Rise Up Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $51k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $106k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $184k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $351k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $209k | 77% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Book | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reading Is Fundamental Inc | $34,025 | 2 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $26,774 | 1 | 0% |
| Yallwest | $22,000 | 2 | 6% |
| City of Orange | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Girls Write Now Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wakefield Elementary PTA | $1,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Spectrum Academy | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Someone Cares Soup Kitchen | $995 | 1 | n/a |
| Desoto County Schools | $500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Book | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reading Is Fundamental Inc | $34,025 | 2 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $26,774 | 1 | 0% |
| Yallwest | $22,000 | 2 | 6% |
| City of Orange | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Girls Write Now Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wakefield Elementary PTA | $1,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Spectrum Academy | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Someone Cares Soup Kitchen | $995 | 1 | n/a |
| Desoto County Schools | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| FosterHope Sacramento | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Serving People In Need Inc | $97 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($723k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rise Up 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rise Up Foundation
- How much does Rise Up Foundation give?
- Rise Up Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $19,837 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Rise Up Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Health (2%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Rise Up Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: First Book ($225k), Reading Is Fundamental Inc ($34k), Donorschooseorg ($27k).
- Does Rise Up Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rise Up 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 Rise Up Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Rise Up Foundation based?
- Rise Up Foundation is based in CA.
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