California · Private foundation
The Severson Family 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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $26k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $618k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations The Severson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | $21k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $43k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $126k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $108k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham Young University | $78,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Hospital De La Familia Foundation | $57,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Bountiful Children's Foundation | $57,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | $15,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Orinda Network for Education | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University-Idaho | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zambias Scholarship Fund | $4,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mully Childrens Family USA Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $1,674 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Severson Family 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: East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Depolo Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Severson Family Foundation
- How much does The Severson Family Foundation give?
- The Severson Family Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $26,200, out of $45,175 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Severson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), International (11%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Severson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Brigham Young University ($79k), Hospital De La Familia Foundation ($58k), Bountiful Children's Foundation ($57k).
- Does The Severson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Severson Family 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 Severson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, The Depolo Foundation.
- Where is The Severson Family Foundation based?
- The Severson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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