California · Private foundation
Told 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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,246,010
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Told Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $3.4M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $2.4M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $985k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $181k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $90k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $61k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Lutheran University | $3,199,010 | 8 | 1% |
| California State University Channel Islands Foundation | $834,935 | 8 | 9% |
| Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts | $755,000 | 4 | 65% |
| University of Denver | $575,000 | 1 | 0% |
| kidSTREAM | $542,500 | 6 | 18% |
| Museum of Ventura County | $350,000 | 3 | 5% |
| California State University Northridge Foundation | $275,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Moorpark College Foundation | $125,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Studio Channel Islands Art Center | $98,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 22 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($315k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Told Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Ventura County Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Santa Barbara Foundation · Martin V and Martha K Smith Foundation · Meadowlark Service League · Scott Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Told Foundation
- How much does Told Foundation give?
- Told Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $3,571,945 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Told Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Arts & Culture (24%), Food & Nutrition (2%).
- Who are Told Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California Lutheran University ($3.2M), California State University Channel Islands Foundation ($835k), Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts ($755k).
- Does Told Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Told 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 Told Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ventura County Community Foundation, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Told Foundation based?
- Told Foundation is based in CA.
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