California · Private foundation
The Shirley Baskin 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.
- $147k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations The Shirley Baskin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 27 | $144k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $141k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $131k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $100k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $99k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $83k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $74k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 58 | $63k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Waterkeeper | $58,598 | 8 | 1% |
| Bless It Bag Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 37% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $37,085 | 8 | 0% |
| American Jewish University | $20,550 | 8 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $17,860 | 3 | 0% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $16,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Knock Out Abuse West | $15,361 | 5 | 29% |
| Mothers2mothers United States Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $11,750 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Shirley Baskin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 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: California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Liberty Hill Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Shirley Baskin Foundation
- How much does The Shirley Baskin Foundation give?
- The Shirley Baskin Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $146,957 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Shirley Baskin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Health (20%), Environment (13%).
- Who are The Shirley Baskin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Los Angeles Waterkeeper ($59k), Bless It Bag Inc ($56k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($37k).
- Does The Shirley Baskin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shirley Baskin 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 Shirley Baskin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Sempra Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is The Shirley Baskin Foundation based?
- The Shirley Baskin Foundation is based in CA.
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