California · Private foundation
The Craft 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.
- $310k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Craft Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 9 | $310k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $325k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $375k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $330k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $255k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $260k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $228k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $253k | 44% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Reason Foundation | $610,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Students for Liberty Inc | $260,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $235,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $195,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation for Economic Education Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Property and Environment Research Center | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Burning Man Project | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Voices | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Craft Foundation supplied at peak.
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 San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Craft Foundation
- How much does The Craft Foundation give?
- The Craft Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $310,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Craft Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (27%), Crime & Legal (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Craft Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Reason Foundation ($610k), Students for Liberty Inc ($260k), Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc ($235k).
- Does The Craft Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Craft 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 Craft Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Craft Foundation based?
- The Craft Foundation is based in CA.
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