California · Private foundation
The James G Boswell 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.
- $7.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $142M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The James G Boswell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 18 | $7.6M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $7.3M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $4.4M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $4.2M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $4.4M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $5.0M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $5.8M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $5.4M | 8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Polytechnic State University Foundation | $12,000,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd | $6,500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $4,275,000 | 9 | 3% |
| California Agricultural Leadership Found | $3,700,000 | 7 | 28% |
| Valley Children's Hospital | $3,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California Future Farmers of America Foundation | $2,900,000 | 8 | 52% |
| Valley Children's Healthcare Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Huntington Medical Research Institutes | $1,600,000 | 9 | 10% |
| The Thacher School Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ag One | $1,100,000 | 2 | 50% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The James G Boswell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Land O'Lakes Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Educational Employees Credit Union · The Otis Booth Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About The James G Boswell Foundation
- How much does The James G Boswell Foundation give?
- The James G Boswell Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $7,556,112 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The James G Boswell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are The James G Boswell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($12M), Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($6.5M), Pacific Legal Foundation ($4.3M).
- Does The James G Boswell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James G Boswell 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 James G Boswell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land O'Lakes Foundation, Kern Community Foundation, The Setton Foundation.
- Where is The James G Boswell Foundation based?
- The James G Boswell Foundation is based in CA.
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