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Three Guineas Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
6
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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100% of Three Guineas Fund’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Three Guineas Fund named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $110k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
3
’18
6
’19
6
’20
6
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Total assets, FY2020
$482k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Three Guineas Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20206$110k0%
FY20196$61k0%
FY20183$70k0%
FY20178$170kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.9MCommunity Improvement$175kArts & Culture$65kInternational$65kCrime & Legal$30kEnvironment$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Goldenrod Foundation Inc$145,0004100%
Policylink$115,00050%
Brac USA Inc$65,00041%
Magnum Cultural Foundation$65,00042%
Astia$60,00053%
National Women's Law Center$30,00040%
The Battery Foundation$4,00010%
Health in Harmony$1,50020%

Where it is load-bearing

Three Guineas Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGoldenrod Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetPolicylink: $115,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBrac USA Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMagnum Cultural Foundation: $65,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAstia: $60,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Battery Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Three Guineas Fund

How much does Three Guineas Fund give?
Three Guineas Fund reported 6 grants totaling $110,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Three Guineas Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), Community Improvement (5%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Three Guineas Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Goldenrod Foundation Inc ($145k), Policylink ($115k), Brac USA Inc ($65k).
Does Three Guineas Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Three Guineas Fund 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 Three Guineas Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Three Guineas Fund based?
Three Guineas Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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