California · Private foundation
The Caruso Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,224,410
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Caruso Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k 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 | 32 | $3.5M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $4.2M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $3.5M | 64% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $4.4M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $4.0M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $6.7M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pepperdine University | $10,920,284 | 6 | 0% |
| Para Los Ninos | $1,918,827 | 7 | 1% |
| Operation Progress Student Assistance Fdn Cal-1 | $1,670,074 | 6 | 55% |
| Brentwood School | $1,500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Loyola High School of Los Angeles | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Thrive Scholars | $739,483 | 4 | 1% |
| Baby2baby | $560,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sierra Health Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 59% |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $392,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $360,621 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 97 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Caruso Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Sempra Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Santa Barbara Foundation
How this is measured
About The Caruso Family Foundation
- How much does The Caruso Family Foundation give?
- The Caruso Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $3,671,443 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Caruso Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Health (10%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Caruso Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Pepperdine University ($11M), Para Los Ninos ($1.9M), Operation Progress Student Assistance Fdn Cal-1 ($1.7M).
- Does The Caruso Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Caruso Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Caruso Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Caruso Family Foundation based?
- The Caruso Family Foundation is based in CA.
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