California · Private foundation
The Handlery Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $246k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,608
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Handlery Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 25 | $246k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $241k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $275k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $293k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $257k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $255k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $238k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $258k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $192,347 | 9 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $191,927 | 9 | n/a |
| University of San Francisco | $134,382 | 9 | 0% |
| California Hotel & Lodging Association Hospitality Foundation | $99,365 | 5 | 5% |
| The Ahla Foundation | $90,203 | 9 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc | $74,797 | 5 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $74,312 | 5 | 0% |
| Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation | $60,015 | 4 | 0% |
| Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation | $59,515 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($569k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Handlery 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · United Way of the Bay Area · The Bessemer Giving Fund · McNabb Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation
How this is measured
About The Handlery Foundation
- How much does The Handlery Foundation give?
- The Handlery Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $246,259 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Handlery Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (11%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Handlery Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($192k), The Salvation Army ($192k), University of San Francisco ($134k).
- Does The Handlery Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Handlery Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Handlery Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is The Handlery Foundation based?
- The Handlery Foundation is based in CA.
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