California · Private foundation
Sylvester Meister 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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Sylvester Meister Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 1 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $21k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $14k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $18k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $3k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $10k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| X Academy | $76,500 | 7 | 21% |
| Siena House Maternity Home of Santa Cruz County | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Holy Cross | $1,394 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre | $1,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Live Like Coco Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Center for Rural Affairs | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Teen Kitchen Project | $600 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvester Meister 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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Newman's Own Foundation · Dignity Health · Clif Family Foundation · Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sylvester Meister Foundation
- How much does Sylvester Meister Foundation give?
- Sylvester Meister Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $20,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sylvester Meister Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (75%), Religion (5%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Sylvester Meister Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: X Academy ($77k), Siena House Maternity Home of Santa Cruz County ($2k), Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($2k).
- Does Sylvester Meister Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sylvester Meister 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 Sylvester Meister Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Sylvester Meister Foundation based?
- Sylvester Meister Foundation is based in CA.
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