California · Private foundation
Room to Breathe Project
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $114M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Room to Breathe Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 17 | $2.8M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.9M | 80% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $984k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $927k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.4M | 89% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca Family of Agencies | $1,299,178 | 4 | 0% |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | $1,225,050 | 4 | 6% |
| US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston | $757,000 | 2 | 2% |
| San Francisco Education Fund | $637,769 | 4 | 9% |
| Illuminate the Arts | $500,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Tipping Point Community | $350,000 | 2 | 1% |
| San Francisco University High School | $335,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mission Graduates | $322,550 | 2 | 4% |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | $265,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Children's Day School Inc | $237,550 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Room to Breathe Project supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Quest Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
About Room to Breathe Project
- How much does Room to Breathe Project give?
- Room to Breathe Project reported 27 grants totaling $3,890,572 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Room to Breathe Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (16%).
- Who are Room to Breathe Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Seneca Family of Agencies ($1.3M), Peer Health Exchange Inc ($1.2M), US Foundation for Queen's University at Kingston ($757k).
- Does Room to Breathe Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Room to Breathe Project accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Room to Breathe Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Room to Breathe Project based?
- Room to Breathe Project is based in CA.
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