California · Private foundation
The Abeles 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.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Abeles Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 18 | $78k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $62k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $54k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $45k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $62k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $59k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 81 | $54k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 83 | $58k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Public Schools Fund | $57,500 | 6 | 1% |
| East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay | $51,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Community College Foundation | $17,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Berkeley Food Network | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| La Familia Medical Center | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Food Depot | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Children's Museum Inc | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lensic Performing Arts Center | $11,340 | 6 | 0% |
| Growing Up New Mexicoinc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Abeles 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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · John H Hart Foundation · St Vincent Hospital · Lannan Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation
How this is measured
About The Abeles Foundation
- How much does The Abeles Foundation give?
- The Abeles Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $77,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Abeles Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (12%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are The Abeles Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Berkeley Public Schools Fund ($58k), East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay ($52k), Destiny Arts Center ($26k).
- Does The Abeles Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Abeles 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 The Abeles Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Thornburg Foundation, Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation.
- Where is The Abeles Foundation based?
- The Abeles Foundation is based in CA.
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