California · Private foundation
Samson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Samson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 2 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel Public Library Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chartwell School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Monterey Museum of Art | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Samson Foundation
- How much does Samson Foundation give?
- Samson Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Samson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (76%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Samson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Carmel Public Library Foundation ($4k), Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc ($3k), Breakthrough T1d ($2k).
- Does Samson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Samson Foundation based?
- Samson Foundation is based in CA.
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