California · Private foundation
Shoreline Family 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.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Shoreline Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 6 | $122k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $111k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $123k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $103k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $125k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $150k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $56k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $43k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Peninsula Bridge Program | $223,150 | 8 | 1% |
| East Palo Alto Academy Foundation | $115,000 | 6 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunday Friends Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Altos Educational Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ecumenical Hunger Program | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Peninsula Bridge Program | $223,150 | 8 | 1% |
| East Palo Alto Academy Foundation | $115,000 | 6 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Services Agency of Mountain View Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunday Friends Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Altos Educational Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ecumenical Hunger Program | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Day Worker Center of Mountain View | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown University | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| StandUp for Kids | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Defy Ventures Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Center for Transitional Justice Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Lives Matter Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Malala Fund | $2,100 | 1 | 0% |
| The Webb Schools | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shoreline Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
How this is measured
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About Shoreline Family Foundation
- How much does Shoreline Family Foundation give?
- Shoreline Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $158,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shoreline Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Human Services (4%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
- Who are Shoreline Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($260k), The Peninsula Bridge Program ($223k), East Palo Alto Academy Foundation ($115k).
- Does Shoreline Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shoreline Family 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 Shoreline Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Shoreline Family Foundation based?
- Shoreline Family Foundation is based in CA.
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