California · Private foundation
Suggs Family 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.
- $834k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $209,112
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Suggs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 39 | $572k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $515k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $493k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $471k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $461k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $366k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $459k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $328k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Marsh Rice University | $432,552 | 7 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $220,913 | 9 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $166,626 | 8 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $161,092 | 7 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $147,175 | 9 | 0% |
| California Lutheran University | $126,211 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Share Inc | $125,628 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $121,420 | 9 | 0% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $102,744 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Suggs Family 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: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Suggs Family Foundation
- How much does Suggs Family Foundation give?
- Suggs Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $833,962 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Suggs Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Education (26%), International (7%).
- Who are Suggs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William Marsh Rice University ($433k), Sierra Club Foundation ($221k), American Indian College Fund ($167k).
- Does Suggs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Suggs Family 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 Suggs Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Conrad N Hilton Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Suggs Family Foundation based?
- Suggs Family Foundation is based in CA.
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