California · Private foundation
Szekely Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $171k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Szekely Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The San Diego Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 72% of the organizations Szekely Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $71k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $70k | 72% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $100k | 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Collective Heritage Institute | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Pachamama Alliance | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Commonweal | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Maia | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| San Diego Historical Society | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Americans Museum Inc | $8,500 | 2 | 6% |
| San Diego Society of Natural History | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The San Diego River Park Foundation | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Unihi Education Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 13% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Szekely 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: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Girard Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · California Humanities · Alumbra Innovations Foundation · David C Copley Foundation
How this is measured
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About Szekely Family Foundation
- How much does Szekely Family Foundation give?
- Szekely Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $170,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Szekely Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (9%), Arts & Culture (2%), Environment (2%).
- Who are Szekely Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide ($25k), Collective Heritage Institute ($20k), The Pachamama Alliance ($15k).
- Does Szekely Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Szekely Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Szekely Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation.
- Where is Szekely Family Foundation based?
- Szekely Family Foundation is based in CA.
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