California · Private foundation
Technology for Better Life 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.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $115
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $338k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Technology for Better Life Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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 | 7 | $136k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $131k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $4k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $886 | 60% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Sharp Chorus | $2,625 | 6 | 1% |
| Northern California Chinese Chorus Allia | $1,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Hope Services | $1,075 | 3 | 0% |
| Ping Pong Community | $1,026 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley | $711 | 1 | 0% |
| Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education | $275 | 1 | n/a |
| Direct Relief | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $131 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco City Impact | $90 | 2 | 0% |
| River of Life Christian Church | $85 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Sharp Chorus | $2,625 | 6 | 1% |
| Northern California Chinese Chorus Allia | $1,200 | 1 | 2% |
| Hope Services | $1,075 | 3 | 0% |
| Ping Pong Community | $1,026 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley | $711 | 1 | 0% |
| Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education | $275 | 1 | n/a |
| Direct Relief | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $131 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco City Impact | $90 | 2 | 0% |
| River of Life Christian Church | $85 | 1 | n/a |
| Disability Voices United | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| World Share USA | $20 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Technology for Better Life 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: United Way Worldwide · Bright Funds Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Technology for Better Life Foundation with peer funders
About Technology for Better Life Foundation
- How much does Technology for Better Life Foundation give?
- Technology for Better Life Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $136,517 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Technology for Better Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (91%), Human Services (3%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Technology for Better Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: A-Sharp Chorus ($3k), Northern California Chinese Chorus Allia ($1k), Hope Services ($1k).
- Does Technology for Better Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Technology for Better Life 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 Technology for Better Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, Bright Funds Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Technology for Better Life Foundation based?
- Technology for Better Life Foundation is based in CA.
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