California · Private foundation
The Christensen Family Foundation
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.
- $524k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Christensen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 38 | $524k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $541k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $760k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $713k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $592k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $558k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $480k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laughing Pony Rescue | $258,500 | 7 | 24% |
| Bay Area Cancer Connections | $165,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Canal Alliance | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $87,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Guardsmen | $82,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue | $77,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $72,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Caminar | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| San Mateo County Historical Association | $65,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Words Alive | $60,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Christensen 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 · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About The Christensen Family Foundation
- How much does The Christensen Family Foundation give?
- The Christensen Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $524,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Christensen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Animals (14%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Christensen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Laughing Pony Rescue ($259k), Bay Area Cancer Connections ($165k), Canal Alliance ($95k).
- Does The Christensen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Christensen 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 Christensen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Christensen Family Foundation based?
- The Christensen Family Foundation is based in CA.
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