California · Private foundation
The Cushman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2025
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 92
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations The Cushman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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 | 75 | $3.9M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 92 | $1.7M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $2.2M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $2.7M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $1.2M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2017 | 68 | $359k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp Healthcare Foundation | $3,240,580 | 7 | 6% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $1,157,245 | 7 | 1% |
| Grossmont Hospital Foundation | $1,050,970 | 6 | 11% |
| Seacrest Foundation | $329,800 | 7 | 3% |
| San Diego Historical Society | $253,600 | 7 | 4% |
| Crisis House | $250,750 | 5 | 3% |
| San Diego Blood Bank | $213,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Downtown San Diego Partnership Foundation | $211,100 | 5 | 13% |
| The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association | $205,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Scripps Health | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 234 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($510k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cushman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 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 Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
How this is measured
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About The Cushman Foundation
- How much does The Cushman Foundation give?
- The Cushman Foundation reported 88 grants totaling $3,922,242 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Cushman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Philanthropy (20%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Cushman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sharp Healthcare Foundation ($3.2M), Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank ($1.2M), Grossmont Hospital Foundation ($1.1M).
- Does The Cushman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cushman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cushman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, David C Copley Foundation.
- Where is The Cushman Foundation based?
- The Cushman Foundation is based in CA.
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