California · Private foundation
The Venables Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $431k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $155,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Venables Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 13 | $276k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $221k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $126k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $977k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $291k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $115k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $53k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $40k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary's Meals USA Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos | $227,600 | 3 | 2% |
| Haiti on the Rise | $95,000 | 7 | 25% |
| Canal Alliance | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marin Foster Care Association | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Home of Hope India - US | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homeward Bound of Marin | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary's Meals USA Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos | $227,600 | 3 | 2% |
| Haiti on the Rise | $95,000 | 7 | 25% |
| Canal Alliance | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marin Foster Care Association | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Home of Hope India - US | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homeward Bound of Marin | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Advokids | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Book Exchange of Marin | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth in Arts | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Think Global Arts Foundation | $500 | 1 | 28% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Venables Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About The Venables Foundation
- How much does The Venables Foundation give?
- The Venables Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $430,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Venables Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Philanthropy (30%), International (11%).
- Who are The Venables Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mary's Meals USA Inc ($240k), The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos ($228k), Haiti on the Rise ($95k).
- Does The Venables Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Venables Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Venables Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
- Where is The Venables Foundation based?
- The Venables Foundation is based in CA.
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