California · Community foundation
The San Bruno Community Foundation
To serve the san bruno community by investing in projects, programs, services, and facilities that have significant and lasting benefits. Through making grants, leveraging partnerships, and taking advantage of other resources, the organization assists and enables the community to maximize shared investments and realize their subsequent…
- $6.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,701,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The San Bruno Community 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; $73k 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 | 25 | $6.2M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $630k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $2.4M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $41M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $2.4M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $2.0M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $7.1M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $1.3M | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of San Bruno | $59,597,683 | 9 | n/a |
| San Bruno Education Foundation | $1,555,390 | 8 | 71% |
| San Mateo County Community College District Financing Corporation | $272,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Capuchino High School Alumni Association | $254,441 | 7 | 50% |
| Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee | $200,000 | 2 | 31% |
| CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Particular Council of San Mateo Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Via Heart Project | $94,809 | 7 | 2% |
| Latino Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services | $90,000 | 6 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The San Bruno Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 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: Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sand Hill Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Monterra Community Fund · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Community Foundation of San Carlos · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Woodlawn Foundation
How this is measured
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About The San Bruno Community Foundation
- How much does The San Bruno Community Foundation give?
- The San Bruno Community Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $6,187,200, out of $6,375,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The San Bruno Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (77%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are The San Bruno Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of San Bruno ($60M), San Bruno Education Foundation ($1.6M), San Mateo County Community College District Financing Corporation ($272k).
- Does The San Bruno Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The San Bruno Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atkinson Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bothin Foundation.
- Where is The San Bruno Community Foundation based?
- The San Bruno Community Foundation is based in CA.
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