California · Private foundation
The Elfenworks 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.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Elfenworks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 13 | $250k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $390k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $399k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $170k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $166k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $320k | 62% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $117k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeastern University | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $298,800 | 4 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $220,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Childfund International USA | $155,487 | 2 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| New Life Community Church | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peninsula Symphony Association | $26,000 | 3 | 12% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $12,400 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($386k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elfenworks 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Elfenworks Foundation
- How much does The Elfenworks Foundation give?
- The Elfenworks Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $250,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Elfenworks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (20%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Elfenworks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Northeastern University ($300k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($299k), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($220k).
- Does The Elfenworks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Elfenworks 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 Elfenworks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The Elfenworks Foundation based?
- The Elfenworks Foundation is based in CA.
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