California · Private foundation
The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment 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.
- $365k
- Granted FY2023
- 10
- Grants FY2023
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 6
- Total assets, FY2023
- $387k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 10 | $365k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $116k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $540k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $915k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.1M | 66% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $419k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $445k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
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 FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sunday | $354,916 | 2 | 9% |
| Color of Changeorg Education Fund | $305,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $250,050 | 2 | 0% |
| National Association of Latino Independent Producers Inc | $127,500 | 3 | 5% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Assoc | $124,600 | 6 | 2% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc | $82,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Anti-Recidivism Coalition | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Manifestworks | $75,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 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 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Snap Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Weingart Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust · The Katie McGrath & Jj Abrams Family Foundation · The Deutsch Foundation · The Hearthland Foundation
How this is measured
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About The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation
- How much does The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation give?
- The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $365,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (11%).
- Who are The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Big Sunday ($355k), Color of Changeorg Education Fund ($305k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($250k).
- Does The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment 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 William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Pledgeling Foundation.
- Where is The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation based?
- The William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation is based in CA.
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