California · Private foundation
Toby Wells Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,703
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Toby Wells 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; $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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $16k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $12k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $18k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $27k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $26k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $17k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $5k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 | $29,625 | 5 | 5% |
| Soccer Kids of America | $6,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Gofundmeorg | $1,776 | 1 | 0% |
| North San Diego Business Chamber | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Frosted Faces Foundation Inc | $1,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rancho Coastal Humane Society | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friendship Paddle | $520 | 1 | 0% |
| Unravel | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Poway Firefighters Association Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 | $29,625 | 5 | 5% |
| Soccer Kids of America | $6,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Gofundmeorg | $1,776 | 1 | 0% |
| North San Diego Business Chamber | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Frosted Faces Foundation Inc | $1,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rancho Coastal Humane Society | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friendship Paddle | $520 | 1 | 0% |
| Unravel | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Poway Firefighters Association Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of East Co Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Firefighteraid Fka San Diego Firefighters Benevolent Fund | $313 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Compadres de Escuela Longfellow | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Poway Center for the Performing Arts Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| 2 The Rescue Animal Sanctuary Inc | $206 | 1 | 0% |
| Asia Wild | $201 | 1 | 0% |
| Little League Baseball Inc | $165 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendship House | $147 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $116 | 1 | 0% |
| Curebound | $105 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Toby Wells 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 San Diego Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Toby Wells Foundation
- How much does Toby Wells Foundation give?
- Toby Wells Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $8,010 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Toby Wells Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Community Improvement (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are Toby Wells Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Soroptimist International of Poway Soroptimist Intl of Americas Club 113218 ($30k), Soccer Kids of America ($7k), Gofundmeorg ($2k).
- Does Toby Wells Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Toby Wells Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Toby Wells Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Toby Wells Foundation based?
- Toby Wells Foundation is based in CA.
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