California · Private foundation
The Bockus Brown Family 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.
- $360k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Bockus Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 | 20 | $335k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $353k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $514k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $415k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $510k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $435k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $410k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $310k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $1,375,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Thousand Islands Land Trust Inc | $385,000 | 6 | 7% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ada's Cafe | $95,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Center for a New American Security Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $55,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($837k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bockus Brown Family 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Tides Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About The Bockus Brown Family Foundation
- How much does The Bockus Brown Family Foundation give?
- The Bockus Brown Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $360,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Bockus Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Environment (13%).
- Who are The Bockus Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Berklee College of Music Inc ($1.4M), Thousand Islands Land Trust Inc ($385k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($110k).
- Does The Bockus Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bockus Brown Family 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 Bockus Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is The Bockus Brown Family Foundation based?
- The Bockus Brown Family Foundation is based in CA.
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