California · Private foundation
Someland 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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,030,928
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Someland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M 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 | 4 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $9.8M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $16M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $7.5M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $33M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $11M | 79% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $8,000,000 | 5 | 13% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $8,000,000 | 5 | 44% |
| Spark Sf Public Schools | $6,292,476 | 1 | 35% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $5,100,000 | 4 | 10% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $4,650,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $2,011,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 80% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Earthjustice | $2,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $1,750,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Someland Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Mitchell Kapor Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Salesforce Foundation
How this is measured
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About Someland Foundation
- How much does Someland Foundation give?
- Someland Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $3,580,928 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Someland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (33%), Education (17%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are Someland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($8.0M), National Redistricting Foundation ($8.0M), Spark Sf Public Schools ($6.3M).
- Does Someland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Someland 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 Someland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Someland Foundation based?
- Someland Foundation is based in CA.
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