California · Private foundation
The Depolo 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.
- $202k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Depolo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 23 | $202k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $237k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $121k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $429k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $160k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $148k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bay Area Urban Network Inc | $520,000 | 5 | 19% |
| Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church | $173,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Mount Hermon Association Incorporated | $103,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Character Choice Inc | $46,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Wellspring | $46,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bay Area Rescue Mission | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cityteam Ministries | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Depolo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 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: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Severson Family Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust
How this is measured
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About The Depolo Foundation
- How much does The Depolo Foundation give?
- The Depolo Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $202,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Depolo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (44%), Religion (30%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
- Who are The Depolo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Bay Area Urban Network Inc ($520k), Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church ($174k), Mount Hermon Association Incorporated ($103k).
- Does The Depolo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Depolo 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 Depolo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lowell Berry Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, The Severson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Depolo Foundation based?
- The Depolo Foundation is based in CA.
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