California · Private foundation
The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2024
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 128
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k 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 | 79 | $1.7M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 87 | $1.9M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 128 | $3.0M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Legal Aid Society | $555,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc | $395,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | $190,850 | 4 | 1% |
| Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children | $155,833 | 3 | 1% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $143,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Bridges from School to Work Inc | $132,222 | 3 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc | $130,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | $127,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Legal Services NYC | $124,565 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation with peer funders
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About The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation
- How much does The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation give?
- The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $1,776,371 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 128 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (30%), Education (14%), Civil Rights (8%).
- Who are The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Legal Aid Society ($555k), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc ($396k), The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press ($191k).
- Does The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sidley Austin Foundation, United Way Miami Inc, Quinn Emanuel Foundation.
- Where is The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation based?
- The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation is based in CA.
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