California · Private foundation
The Esseff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Esseff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 3 | $12k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $37k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $44k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $11k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $50k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $43k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Institute for Priestly Formation Inc | $34,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc | $21,192 | 4 | 0% |
| Medshare International Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic World Mission Inc | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $3,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Life Centers of Ventura County | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Okaja Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation Sole | $750 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Institute for Priestly Formation Inc | $34,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc | $21,192 | 4 | 0% |
| Medshare International Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic World Mission Inc | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $3,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Life Centers of Ventura County | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Okaja Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation Sole | $750 | 1 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Opus Bono Sacerdotii | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Esseff Foundation
- How much does The Esseff Foundation give?
- The Esseff Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $12,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Esseff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (66%), International (18%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
- Who are The Esseff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn ($65k), Institute for Priestly Formation Inc ($34k), Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc ($21k).
- Does The Esseff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Esseff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Esseff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Esseff Foundation based?
- The Esseff Foundation is based in CA.
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