California · Private foundation
The Christensen Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 134
- Grants FY2024
- 126
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $77,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 126
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $327M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Christensen Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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 | 110 | $13M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 126 | $12M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 106 | $13M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $11M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 82 | $7.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native Americans in Philanthropy | $2,260,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Native American Rights Fund Inc | $1,350,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Rainforest Foundation Inc | $1,035,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Land is Life Inc | $1,015,000 | 5 | 11% |
| International Indian Treaty Council Inc | $1,010,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc | $975,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Amah Mutsun Land Trust | $931,000 | 4 | 11% |
| National Congress of American Indians Fund | $915,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Cultural Survival Inc | $882,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc | $765,000 | 3 | 82% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 143 recipients with no EIN on record ($33M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Christensen Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Resources Legacy Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Christensen Fund
- How much does The Christensen Fund give?
- The Christensen Fund reported 134 grants totaling $13,235,092 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 126 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Christensen Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (34%), Environment (21%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are The Christensen Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Native Americans in Philanthropy ($2.3M), Native American Rights Fund Inc ($1.4M), Rainforest Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does The Christensen Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Christensen Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Christensen Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rsf Social Finance Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Christensen Fund based?
- The Christensen Fund is based in CA.
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