New York · Private foundation
The Ginkgo Fund
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2026
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 6
- Total assets, FY2026
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 12% of the organizations The Ginkgo Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 18 | $2.2M | 22% |
| FY2025 | 17 | $1.5M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.6M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $2.5M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.1M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Caltech Y | $2,143,750 | 7 | 48% |
| Fcnl Education Fund | $1,700,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Friends Publishing Corporation | $880,000 | 7 | 14% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $586,152 | 2 | 1% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $580,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincoln Foundation | $500,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Nonviolence Institute | $450,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc | $375,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Christopher 2X Game Changers Inc | $360,000 | 7 | 28% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ginkgo Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Ginkgo Fund
- How much does The Ginkgo Fund give?
- The Ginkgo Fund reported 20 grants totaling $2,902,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does The Ginkgo Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (36%), Public Benefit (13%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Ginkgo Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: The Caltech Y ($2.1M), Fcnl Education Fund ($1.7M), Friends Publishing Corporation ($880k).
- Does The Ginkgo Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ginkgo Fund 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 Ginkgo Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, James Graham Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ginkgo Fund based?
- The Ginkgo Fund is based in NY.
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