California · Private foundation
The Draper Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 114
- Grants FY2024
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 68
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $188M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Draper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 87 | $6.6M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $5.8M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $4.0M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $5.6M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $2.2M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $1.8M | 52% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $1.2M | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | $4,328,369 | 7 | 9% |
| California Policy Center | $2,200,000 | 5 | 32% |
| The Independent Institute | $1,958,150 | 6 | 18% |
| Bizworld Foundation | $1,544,250 | 8 | 80% |
| Ravenswood Education Foundation | $999,999 | 2 | 5% |
| Libertas Network | $975,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $975,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Draper Hero Institute | $805,000 | 1 | 29% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Brink Technology Inc | $700,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Draper Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bothin Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Draper Foundation
- How much does The Draper Foundation give?
- The Draper Foundation reported 114 grants totaling $6,789,726 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Draper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (25%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are The Draper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation ($4.3M), California Policy Center ($2.2M), The Independent Institute ($2.0M).
- Does The Draper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Draper Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Draper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Draper Foundation based?
- The Draper Foundation is based in CA.
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