California · Private foundation
Spight Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $17k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $188k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Spight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 5 | $17k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $9k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $12k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $11k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $6k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspiranet | $9,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Public Lands Conservancy | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Advocates of Contra Costa County | $8,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Bay Area Crisis Nursery | $7,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Futures Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Impact Bay Area | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ruby's Place Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspiranet | $9,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Public Lands Conservancy | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Advocates of Contra Costa County | $8,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Bay Area Crisis Nursery | $7,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Futures Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Impact Bay Area | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ruby's Place Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development | $750 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spight 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: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Spight Foundation
- How much does Spight Foundation give?
- Spight Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $17,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Spight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (43%), Food & Nutrition (25%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Spight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aspiranet ($9k), Public Lands Conservancy ($9k), Child Advocates of Contra Costa County ($8k).
- Does Spight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Spight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lowell Berry Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Spight Foundation based?
- Spight Foundation is based in CA.
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