California · Private foundation
Sue J Gross 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.
- $5.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $5.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $101M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Sue J Gross 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; $693k 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 | 26 | $2.9M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.8M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $4.6M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find Your Grind Foundation | $4,450,000 | 4 | 99% |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | $4,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | $3,950,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Environmental Nature Center | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Saddleback College Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Golf Fore Life Skills the First Tee of Orange County | $200,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $175,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Laguna Food Pantry | $105,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($853k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sue J Gross Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Roberta Freeman Cox Charitable Foundation · Curci Fund · The Hexberg Family Foundation · Oneoc · Argyros Family Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Sue J Gross Foundation
- How much does Sue J Gross Foundation give?
- Sue J Gross Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $5,047,500, out of $5,252,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Sue J Gross Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Health (14%), Education (10%).
- Who are Sue J Gross Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Find Your Grind Foundation ($4.5M), University of California Irvine Foundation ($4.0M), Hoag Hospital Foundation ($4.0M).
- Does Sue J Gross Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sue J Gross 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 Sue J Gross Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation, O L Halsell Foundation.
- Where is Sue J Gross Foundation based?
- Sue J Gross Foundation is based in CA.
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