Texas · Private foundation
The Search 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.
- $699k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $120,796
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Search Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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 | 13 | $669k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $493k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $390k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $560k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $335k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epic Foundation Inc | $258,412 | 4 | 20% |
| The Periwinkle Foundation | $140,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Ocean Foundation | $107,290 | 2 | 0% |
| Life Project 4 Youth Inc | $93,369 | 5 | 4% |
| Bumi Sehat Foundation International Inc | $90,000 | 5 | 6% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
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: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Search Foundation
- How much does The Search Foundation give?
- The Search Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $699,312 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Search Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), International (19%), Civil Rights (9%).
- Who are The Search Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Epic Foundation Inc ($258k), The Periwinkle Foundation ($140k), The Ocean Foundation ($107k).
- Does The Search Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Search 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 Search Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Search Foundation based?
- The Search Foundation is based in TX.
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