California · Private foundation
The Chris and Melody Malachowsky 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.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 165
- Grants FY2024
- 146
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 146
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 25
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 160 | $5.5M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 146 | $4.8M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $3.4M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $1.9M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $1.7M | 51% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.5M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.2M | 53% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $549k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $520,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Earthjustice | $515,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $495,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Christian Ministry Alliance | $400,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $375,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Computer History Museum | $355,000 | 8 | 1% |
| NAMI National | $340,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association | $275,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 243 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · Marin Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc
How this is measured
Compare The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation
- How much does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation give?
- The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation reported 165 grants totaling $5,624,082 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 146 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (16%), Health (12%), International (8%).
- Who are The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clean Air Task Force Inc ($521k), Earthjustice ($516k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($495k).
- Does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chris and Melody Malachowsky 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 Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation based?
- The Chris and Melody Malachowsky Family Foundation is based in CA.
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