California · Private foundation
Teach a Man to Fish 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.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,065,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $144M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Teach a Man to Fish Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $867k 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 | 10 | $8.5M | 60% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $5.1M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $6.0M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $5.8M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $3.7M | 69% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $2.7M | 74% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $3.0M | 76% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $2.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking Softer | $21,947,514 | 4 | 100% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $1,917,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The George W Bush Foundation | $1,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Deployus Inc | $550,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Ecology Center | $500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc | $485,000 | 3 | 25% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Life Camps Incorporated | $450,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $360,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Santa Monica | $352,200 | 4 | 10% |
Show all 170 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Teach a Man to Fish Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 154 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 · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Argyros Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Speyer Family Foundation · The David Rockefeller Fund Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Devto Support Foundation · Sempra Foundation
How this is measured
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About Teach a Man to Fish Foundation
- How much does Teach a Man to Fish Foundation give?
- Teach a Man to Fish Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $8,458,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Teach a Man to Fish Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Health (11%), Education (7%).
- Who are Teach a Man to Fish Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Walking Softer ($22M), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($1.9M), The George W Bush Foundation ($1.0M).
- Does Teach a Man to Fish Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Teach a Man to Fish 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 Teach a Man to Fish Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Teach a Man to Fish Foundation based?
- Teach a Man to Fish Foundation is based in CA.
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