· Private foundation
The Grayling 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING | $35,337 |
| THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $35,337 |
| SFIAC | $10,374 |
| ONE | $10,180 |
| CALICO | $10,000 |
| BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| The Donovan and Bank Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA8× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +30%- BIBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING6× · 2020–2025 · $146k · revenue +21%
- SBSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- LOLOVE ON YOUR BACKone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -74%
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.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Religions ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE ON YOUR BACK ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds MNS PTA Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PINNACLE PEAK PARK ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Grayling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grayling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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