California · Private foundation
Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $730k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- 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, 6% of the organizations Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 35 | $730k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $780k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $785k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $785k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $784k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $734k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $734k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $525,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Marin Humane Society | $525,000 | 7 | 1% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $330,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $250,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $230,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Samaritan House | $200,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Curiodyssey | $175,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| San Mateo County Health Foundation | $70,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust | $70,000 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Floyd Family Foundation · Hoefer Family Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust
- How much does Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust give?
- Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust reported 35 grants totaling $729,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (41%), Health (22%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($525k), Marin Humane Society ($525k), San Francisco Zoological Society ($330k).
- Does Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bothin Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust based?
- Thelma Doelger Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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