California · Private foundation
Syzygy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $585k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $27,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $255,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $998k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Syzygy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 12 | $585k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $168k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $295k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $330k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $189k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $338k | 46% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $410k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Roxie Theater | $270,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space | $205,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Transcendence Theatre Company | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Film Society of Austin Inc | $178,750 | 3 | 1% |
| FOR-SITE Foundation | $160,000 | 7 | 5% |
| First Graduate | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Documentary Educational Resources Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Human Arts Association Ltd | $83,580 | 4 | 41% |
| Family Violence Appellate Project | $55,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Media Collective Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 39% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($538k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Syzygy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Catapult Film Fund · The Battery Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Syzygy Foundation
- How much does Syzygy Foundation give?
- Syzygy Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $584,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Syzygy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Education (17%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Syzygy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Roxie Theater ($270k), Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space ($205k), Transcendence Theatre Company ($200k).
- Does Syzygy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Syzygy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Syzygy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Syzygy Foundation based?
- Syzygy Foundation is based in CA.
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