California · Public charity
Social Impact Fund
SIFs mission is to inspire efficient and accessible philanthropy. We engage with culture-makers in the entertainment and creative communities, and beyond, to accelerate their social impact.
- $6.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $752,403
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 64
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Social Impact Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 | 75 | $4.0M | 72% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $3.7M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $3.4M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.1M | 78% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $4.7M | 72% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $3.3M | 91% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| College Track | $2,800,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Family Reach Foundation | $2,118,311 | 3 | 17% |
| Humanity Forward Foundation | $1,532,044 | 3 | 37% |
| Latinos In Heritage Conservation | $1,317,403 | 2 | 72% |
| Accelerate Change Inc | $800,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Notes For Notes Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Shrm Foundation Inc | $470,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Grounded Foundation Inc | $400,302 | 1 | 43% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $370,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $325,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 236 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Social Impact Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Social Impact Fund?
Find your warmest path to Social Impact Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Social Impact Fund
- How much does Social Impact Fund give?
- Social Impact Fund reported 87 itemized grants totaling $4,209,157, out of $6,367,447 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 64 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Social Impact Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Social Impact Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: College Track ($2.8M), Family Reach Foundation ($2.1M), Humanity Forward Foundation ($1.5M).
- Does Social Impact Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Social Impact Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Hill Foundation, Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Social Impact Fund based?
- Social Impact Fund is based in CA.
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