California · Private foundation
Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $170k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 57 | $164k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $109k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $155k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $177k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $228k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $123k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $133k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $147k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $127,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation | $48,450 | 8 | 0% |
| Pars Equality Center | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Colgate University | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $31,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation | $28,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | $25,550 | 5 | 0% |
| The Exploratorium | $25,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 126 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($241k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 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 · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Heffernan Group Foundation · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc give?
- Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc reported 59 grants totaling $169,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Food & Nutrition (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund ($128k), Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation ($48k), Pars Equality Center ($44k).
- Does Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc 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 Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, Hobsonlucas Family Foundation.
- Where is Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc based?
- Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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