California · Private foundation
The Gretler 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.
- $773k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Gretler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 10 | $773k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $745k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $769k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $862k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $720k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $730k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $750k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $723k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good News in Action Inc | $287,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation | $215,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Sansum Diabetes Research Institute | $165,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $90,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $85,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Coast Jr Golf Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Goleta Education Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good News in Action Inc | $287,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation | $215,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Sansum Diabetes Research Institute | $165,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $90,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $85,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Coast Jr Golf Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Goleta Education Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Maryam Parman Foundation for Children Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Grace Fisher Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gretler Foundation 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: Bull Henry W Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Gretler Foundation
- How much does The Gretler Foundation give?
- The Gretler Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $772,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gretler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Education (20%), Social Science (13%).
- Who are The Gretler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good News in Action Inc ($287k), Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ($215k), Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ($165k).
- Does The Gretler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gretler 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 Gretler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bull Henry W Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Mosher Foundation.
- Where is The Gretler Foundation based?
- The Gretler Foundation is based in CA.
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