How much does The F1 Key Foundation give?

The F1 Key Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $26,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The F1 Key Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (46%), Education (29%), Human Services (7%).

Who are The F1 Key Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Iowa Wesleyan University ($72k), Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ($31k), Advocates for the West Inc ($30k).

Does The F1 Key Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The F1 Key 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 F1 Key Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is The F1 Key Foundation based?

The F1 Key Foundation is based in CA.

The F1 Key Foundation

The F1 Key Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The F1 Key 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.

$27k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$118kEducation$74kHuman Services$18kHealth$15kInternational$15kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$6kAnimals$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$365k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance	$5,000
Advocates for the West	$5,000
Western Watersheds Project	$5,000
Anza-Borrego Foundation	$3,000
Polar Bear International	$2,000
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles	$2,000
California State Parks Foundation	$1,000
Camp Pendleton Armed Forces YMCA	$1,000
The Salvation Army	$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federaion of Ame	$1,000
Western Museum of Flight	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$251k · 23 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$251k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

+30%

Still filing today

61%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsScience & TechOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

SU
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +134%
AF
ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +187%
WW
WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +131%

Funded once

OH
OCEANSIDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -31%
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +134%
ZS
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $666 · revenue +28%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner

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Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment

Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment

CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment

Greater Farallones Association

Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.

Animals

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Colorado Parks Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

16/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$137,250Environment$90,750Health$14,500Recreation & Sports$11,500Animals$1,666Science & Tech$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The F1 Key Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The F1 Key Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home