California · Private foundation
Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable 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.
- $208k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 24 | $198k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $76k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $100k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $77k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $69k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $49k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concern Foundation | $140,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Oakwood School | $101,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Stephen S Wise Temple | $100,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Beit T'Shuvah | $39,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Beauty Bus Foundation | $26,500 | 7 | 2% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Piece by Piece | $18,250 | 8 | 1% |
| Tower Cancer Research Foundation | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Cares Corp | $12,000 | 5 | 67% |
| Chapman University | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Marvin and Sondra Smalley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Annenberg Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · The Stanley & Joyce Black Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
Compare Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation
- How much does Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation give?
- Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $207,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (21%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Concern Foundation ($141k), Oakwood School ($102k), Stephen S Wise Temple ($100k).
- Does Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable 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 Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Marvin and Sondra Smalley Foundation.
- Where is Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation based?
- Steven and Ilyse Teller Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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