California · Private foundation
Shugar Magic Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $305k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Shugar Magic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 8 | $305k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $49k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $111k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $212k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $605k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $216k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Voter Participation Center | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sierra Club | $67,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vote Solar | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Solar Energy Society Inc | $60,200 | 3 | 7% |
| Accelerate Change Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wind Solar Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Atma Connect | $40,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $33,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shugar Magic 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: The Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Overbrook Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Shugar Magic Foundation
- How much does Shugar Magic Foundation give?
- Shugar Magic Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $305,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Shugar Magic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (36%), Environment (35%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are Shugar Magic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Voter Participation Center ($450k), National Redistricting Foundation ($75k), Sierra Club ($67k).
- Does Shugar Magic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shugar Magic 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 Shugar Magic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Energy Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is Shugar Magic Foundation based?
- Shugar Magic Foundation is based in CA.
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