Texas · Private foundation
The Saisei 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.
- $657k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $142,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Saisei Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 6 | $557k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $100k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.1M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $3.0M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $1.2M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.2M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $748k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $2,328,946 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Peace Parks Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 22% |
| University of California San Francisco | $99,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the University of Auckland Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Nowak Society | $50,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Fungi Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $2,328,946 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Peace Parks Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 22% |
| University of California San Francisco | $99,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the University of Auckland Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 8% |
| The Nowak Society | $50,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Fungi Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Poospatuck Cultural Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Gather Well Pschedelics Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wolakota Waldorf Society | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Saisei Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Saisei Foundation
- How much does The Saisei Foundation give?
- The Saisei Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $657,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Saisei Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Health (9%), Science & Tech (6%).
- Who are The Saisei Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($2.3M), University of Washington ($200k), Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund ($100k).
- Does The Saisei Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Saisei 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 Saisei Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Saisei Foundation based?
- The Saisei Foundation is based in TX.
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