California · Private foundation
The Waits Brennan 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.
- $132k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $678k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Waits Brennan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 18 | $132k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $38k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $77k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $87k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $188k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $100 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $135,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| NAMI Sonoma County | $40,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAMI National | $16,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Pacific Zen Institute | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Redwood Gospel Missions | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ceres Community Project | $2,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Peacetown | $2,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Waits Brennan 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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Waits Brennan Foundation
- How much does The Waits Brennan Foundation give?
- The Waits Brennan Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $131,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Waits Brennan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (41%), Human Services (31%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Waits Brennan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ($135k), Redwood Empire Food Bank ($90k), NAMI Sonoma County ($40k).
- Does The Waits Brennan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Waits Brennan 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 Waits Brennan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Sonoma County Vintners Foundation.
- Where is The Waits Brennan Foundation based?
- The Waits Brennan Foundation is based in CA.
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