California · Private foundation
The Otis Booth 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.
- $14M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 140
- Grants FY2024
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 97 to 132
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $231M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Otis Booth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $813k 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 | 111 | $14M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 109 | $12M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 132 | $15M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 97 | $13M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 106 | $8.5M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 99 | $8.3M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 121 | $7.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard-Westlake School | $20,190,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation | $5,000,000 | 3 | 15% |
| The Thacher School Inc | $4,936,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Los Angeles Police Foundation | $4,005,000 | 5 | 17% |
| California Institute of Technology | $3,016,667 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $2,790,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cate School | $2,025,000 | 3 | 3% |
| California Science Center Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $1,600,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Marjaree Mason Center Inc | $1,230,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 234 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Otis Booth Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Wm Keck Foundation · California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Otis Booth Foundation
- How much does The Otis Booth Foundation give?
- The Otis Booth Foundation reported 140 grants totaling $14,380,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 132 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Otis Booth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Otis Booth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Harvard-Westlake School ($20M), Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation ($5.0M), The Thacher School Inc ($4.9M).
- Does The Otis Booth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Otis Booth 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 Otis Booth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wm Keck Foundation, California Community Foundation, Pasadena Community Foundation.
- Where is The Otis Booth Foundation based?
- The Otis Booth Foundation is based in CA.
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