California · Private foundation
The Desantis 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.
- $64k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- 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, 80% of the organizations The Desantis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 8 | $64k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $87k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $86k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $33k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $56k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $98k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $225k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $215k | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillbrook School | $461,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | $69,525 | 3 | 0% |
| National Christian Foundation Inc | $42,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Laguna Blanca School | $31,519 | 4 | 0% |
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | $20,736 | 3 | 0% |
| One805 Inc | $10,401 | 1 | 1% |
| Saint Mary's College of California | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Harrison Greenberg Memorial Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Los Gatos High School New Millennium Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($344k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Desantis 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: California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · Morrison Institute for Decentralism · The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra Foundation
How this is measured
About The Desantis Foundation
- How much does The Desantis Foundation give?
- The Desantis Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $64,183 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Desantis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (25%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are The Desantis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hillbrook School ($462k), Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights ($70k), National Christian Foundation Inc ($42k).
- Does The Desantis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Desantis 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 Desantis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Desantis Foundation based?
- The Desantis Foundation is based in CA.
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