California · Private foundation
Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation
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.
- $341k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 57
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 27
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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 | 63 | $341k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $337k | 70% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $377k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $129k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $235k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $437k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $159k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $206k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land to Learn | $51,700 | 8 | 3% |
| Uc Riverside Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mill City Grows Inc | $49,500 | 7 | 1% |
| City Growers Inc | $42,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Western Watersheds Projects Inc | $38,700 | 7 | 1% |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Latin American Perspectives Inc | $32,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Snipes Farm and Education Center | $30,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Wild Farm Alliance | $28,100 | 6 | 4% |
| Growing Gardens of Boulder County | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 127 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation 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: Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · UNFI Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agy · The Horne Family Foundation · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Marin Community Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Earth Island Institute Inc · The Marisla Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation with peer funders
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About Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation
- How much does Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation give?
- Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation reported 64 grants totaling $341,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (39%), Environment (26%), Social Science (11%).
- Who are Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Land to Learn ($52k), Uc Riverside Foundation ($50k), Mill City Grows Inc ($50k).
- Does Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation 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 Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Clif Family Foundation, UNFI Foundation.
- Where is Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation based?
- Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation is based in CA.
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