California · Private foundation
Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 27 | $53k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $36k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $76k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $100k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $65k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $84k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $28k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $33k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc | $35,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Beth Morrison Projects Inc | $17,578 | 6 | 0% |
| Opera America Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kif1aorg Inc | $11,050 | 3 | 2% |
| League to Save Lake Tahoe | $11,042 | 6 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Opera Santa Barbara | $8,030 | 5 | 0% |
| On Site Opera Inc | $7,702 | 4 | 1% |
| Overtone Industries | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Theatre Communications Group Inc | $6,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($342k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation 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: California Community Foundation · Opera America Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Corey Foundation · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation with peer funders
About Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation
- How much does Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation give?
- Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $52,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Arts & Culture (23%), Civil Rights (21%).
- Who are Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc ($35k), Beth Morrison Projects Inc ($18k), Opera America Inc ($13k).
- Does Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow 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 Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Opera America Inc, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP.
- Where is Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation based?
- Seniel & Dorothy Ostrow Foundation is based in CA.
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