California · Private foundation
The Markkula Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $485k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 34
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Markkula Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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 | $485k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $674k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $227k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $433k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $555k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristo Rey San Jose High School | $601,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Certell Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $115,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Nature Conservancy of California | $100,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| El Camino Hospital Foundation | $64,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Cato Institute | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Computer History Museum | $54,096 | 5 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Markkula 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA · The Valley Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation
How this is measured
About The Markkula Foundation
- How much does The Markkula Foundation give?
- The Markkula Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $485,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 34 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Markkula Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Recreation & Sports (16%), Public Benefit (16%).
- Who are The Markkula Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cristo Rey San Jose High School ($601k), Certell Inc ($150k), Judicial Watch Inc ($150k).
- Does The Markkula Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Markkula Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Markkula Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Markkula Foundation based?
- The Markkula Foundation is based in CA.
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