California · Private foundation
The North Ridge 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.
- $273k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The North Ridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 38 | $237k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $339k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $124k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $293k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $162k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $170k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $193k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smithsonian Institution | $327,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Regulatory Assistance Project | $225,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rural Development Institute | $185,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Common Sense Media | $165,000 | 3 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $130,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Learning Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Spokane Civic Theatre Inc | $86,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $45,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $39,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Sustainable Conservation | $30,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The North Ridge 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 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Swig Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Seattle Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
How this is measured
About The North Ridge Foundation
- How much does The North Ridge Foundation give?
- The North Ridge Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $272,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The North Ridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are The North Ridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Smithsonian Institution ($327k), Regulatory Assistance Project ($225k), Rural Development Institute ($186k).
- Does The North Ridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The North Ridge 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 North Ridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The North Ridge Foundation based?
- The North Ridge Foundation is based in CA.
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