California · Private foundation
The Acer Fund
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.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $246k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Acer Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 14 | $12k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $11k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $7k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $7k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $6k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $6k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ritenour Pride & Promise Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 2% |
| North East Exchange Team - San Francisco | $3,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| North Beach Citizens | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West County Health Centers Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Francisco Park Conservancy | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| La Casa de Los Ninos | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Catalina School | $1,950 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ritenour Pride & Promise Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 2% |
| North East Exchange Team - San Francisco | $3,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| North Beach Citizens | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| West County Health Centers Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Francisco Park Conservancy | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| La Casa de Los Ninos | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Catalina School | $1,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marin Museum of Contemporary Art | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| LandPaths | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ecologistics Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Chamber Orchestra | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Boychoir | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| InterMusic SF | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Russian Hill Neighbors | $150 | 2 | n/a |
| The Clear Fund | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Dance Palace | $50 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Acer Fund 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: Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Bothin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Acer Fund
- How much does The Acer Fund give?
- The Acer Fund reported 14 grants totaling $11,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Acer Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (18%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Acer Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Trustees of Princeton University ($6k), Ritenour Pride & Promise Foundation ($4k), North East Exchange Team - San Francisco ($4k).
- Does The Acer Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Acer Fund 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 Acer Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Sonoma County Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Acer Fund based?
- The Acer Fund is based in CA.
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