California · Public charity
The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
The Foundation is organized and operated to make gifts to other section 501c3 organizations that engage in activities that a improve the quality of life and community b further the professional and educational interest of the legal profession and c conduct charitable educational and or community activities.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 335
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 76
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $294k 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 | 231 | $2.9M | 66% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $1.4M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Area Legal Aid | $765,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | $763,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area | $593,867 | 6 | 6% |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc | $291,000 | 6 | 2% |
| World Justice Project | $260,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Center for Justice & Accountability | $245,700 | 6 | 2% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $213,335 | 6 | 0% |
| Legal Aid at Work | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $203,244 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $198,299 | 4 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 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: The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Equal Justice Works · California Access to Justice Commission · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · California Changelawyers
How this is measured
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About The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
- How much does The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation give?
- The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation reported 335 grants totaling $2,353,446 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (44%), Civil Rights (15%), International (6%).
- Who are The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bay Area Legal Aid ($765k), Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ($764k), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area ($594k).
- Does The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morrison & Foerster Foundation, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Perkins Coie Foundation.
- Where is The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation based?
- The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation is based in CA.
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