California · Private foundation
The Henderson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 32
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $110M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Henderson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k 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 | 40 | $3.2M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $2.6M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $3.6M | 91% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Day School Inc | $4,175,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $771,430 | 3 | 1% |
| Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco | $450,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Women Donors Network | $420,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Locus Science Fiction Foundation Inc | $399,000 | 2 | 33% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Illuminate the Arts | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Project Tf | $250,000 | 2 | 9% |
| TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE | $225,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The OpEd Project Public Knowledge Fund Inc | $225,000 | 2 | 44% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Henderson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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 San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Battery Foundation · McNabb Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Henderson Family Foundation
- How much does The Henderson Family Foundation give?
- The Henderson Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $4,416,459 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 32 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Henderson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (19%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Henderson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Children's Day School Inc ($4.2M), Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums ($771k), Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco ($450k).
- Does The Henderson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Henderson Family 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 Henderson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Henderson Family Foundation based?
- The Henderson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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