California · Private foundation
Squid & Squash 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.
- $48k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $34,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $405k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Squid & Squash Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 5 | $48k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $117k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $151k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $267k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $222k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $215k | 32% |
| FY2017 | 39 | $241k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Voice | $419,314 | 7 | 5% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $176,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Clarematrix | $47,000 | 5 | 0% |
| PS Science | $46,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Tree Academy | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Southern California Public Radio | $36,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Better Angels Inc | $33,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Mother of Many | $31,400 | 5 | n/a |
| A Place Called Home | $30,054 | 4 | 0% |
| Fa-Mli Inc | $28,800 | 2 | 30% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Squid & Squash Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Strauss Foundation Td · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Green Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Harry and Barbara Goldman Foundation Co Lynne G Silbert President · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
How this is measured
About Squid & Squash Foundation
- How much does Squid & Squash Foundation give?
- Squid & Squash Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $48,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Squid & Squash Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Education (15%), Civil Rights (14%).
- Who are Squid & Squash Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: One Voice ($419k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($177k), Clarematrix ($47k).
- Does Squid & Squash Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Squid & Squash 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 Squid & Squash Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Strauss Foundation Td.
- Where is Squid & Squash Foundation based?
- Squid & Squash Foundation is based in CA.
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