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Septuagenarian Fund

To provide help to organizations on the frontlines of protecting america's security and democracy. Including veterans and military families, trustworthy journalism and civic engagement campaigns, cyber security education programs, hunger relief, and pigeon rescue.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$323M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blue Star Families Inc$1,000,00033%
Mozilla Foundation$200,00010%

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.

Craig Newmark Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Craig Newmark FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Craig Newmark Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Septuagenarian Fund

How much does Septuagenarian Fund give?
Septuagenarian Fund reported 2 grants totaling $1,200,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Septuagenarian Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (83%), Science & Tech (17%).
Who are Septuagenarian Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Blue Star Families Inc ($1.0M), Mozilla Foundation ($200k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Septuagenarian Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Craig Newmark Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Septuagenarian Fund based?
Septuagenarian Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $47M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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