California · Private foundation
The Sanford & Linda Gallanter 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 31 | $703k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $342k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $449k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $503k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $788k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $780k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $526k | 34% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $376k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $362,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Common Cause Education Fund | $285,000 | 6 | 3% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $275,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ultimate Peace Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 11% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $114,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $90,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Alliance for Justice | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Palo Alto University Inc | $51,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $43,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sanford & Linda Gallanter 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation with peer funders
About The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation
- How much does The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation give?
- The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,078,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), International (30%), Religion (7%).
- Who are The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: J Street Education Fund Inc ($363k), Common Cause Education Fund ($285k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($275k).
- Does The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sanford & Linda Gallanter 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 Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation based?
- The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation is based in CA.
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