How much does The Bellwether Foundation II give?

The Bellwether Foundation II reported 8 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bellwether Foundation II fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Public Benefit (24%), Crime & Legal (11%).

Who are The Bellwether Foundation II's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coalition for Green Capital D/B/A American Green Bank Consortium ($450k), Voto Latino Inc ($445k), The Voter Participation Center ($440k).

Does The Bellwether Foundation II fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bellwether Foundation II 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.

Where is The Bellwether Foundation II based?

The Bellwether Foundation II is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

The Bellwether Foundation II

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.

$350k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $11M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Bellwether Foundation II funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$350k	0%
FY2024	15	$830k	20%
FY2023	12	$580k	17%
FY2022	12	$603k	8%
FY2021	12	$515k	17%
FY2020	16	$901k	25%
FY2019	13	$510k	38%
FY2018	14	$520k	57%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.3MCrime & Legal$610kHealth$495kPhilanthropy$430kFood & Nutrition$360kHuman Services$310kCivil Rights$265kOther$0

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
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/A American Green Bank Consortium	$450,000	9	5%
Voto Latino Inc	$445,000	6	2%
The Voter Participation Center	$440,000	5	0%
Groundswell Inc	$385,000	8	3%
Center for Food Safety	$360,000	8	2%
Center for Environmental Health	$360,000	8	2%
Family Violence Law Center	$320,000	7	2%
Vote Solar	$290,000	7	1%
The Breakthrough Institute	$245,000	8	2%
Family Violence Appellate Project	$240,000	5	3%

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All grantees of The Bellwether Foundation II by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/A American Green Bank Consortium	$450,000	9	5%
Voto Latino Inc	$445,000	6	2%
The Voter Participation Center	$440,000	5	0%
Groundswell Inc	$385,000	8	3%
Center for Food Safety	$360,000	8	2%
Center for Environmental Health	$360,000	8	2%
Family Violence Law Center	$320,000	7	2%
Vote Solar	$290,000	7	1%
The Breakthrough Institute	$245,000	8	2%
Family Violence Appellate Project	$240,000	5	3%
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence	$240,000	5	2%
Freefrom	$150,000	3	1%
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners	$135,000	3	2%
The Council on Strategic Risks	$105,000	3	4%
Protect Democracy Project	$100,000	1	0%
States United Democracy Center Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Civilization Works	$85,000	3	n/a
La Casa de las Madres	$80,000	2	1%
Maitri	$80,000	2	3%
Pesticide Action Network North America	$75,000	2	n/a
Contina Impact	$50,000	1	4%
Fairvote	$50,000	1	1%
Ploughshares Fund Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
Association of Independents in Radio Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Progeorgia State Table Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
The Roosevelt Institute	$25,000	1	n/a
Global Zero	$20,000	1	1%
Futures Without Violence	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bellwether Foundation II supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Women's Foundation of California · Jewish Communal Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Bellwether Foundation II

How much does The Bellwether Foundation II give?: The Bellwether Foundation II reported 8 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Bellwether Foundation II fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Public Benefit (24%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are The Bellwether Foundation II's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coalition for Green Capital D/B/A American Green Bank Consortium ($450k), Voto Latino Inc ($445k), The Voter Participation Center ($440k).
Does The Bellwether Foundation II fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bellwether Foundation II 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 Bellwether Foundation II?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
Where is The Bellwether Foundation II based?: The Bellwether Foundation II is based in CA.