California · Private foundation
Twanda Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $799k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Twanda Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 49 | $390k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $364k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $696k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $727k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $252k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $222k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $205k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $191k | 28% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Trampas School Inc | $126,410 | 6 | 0% |
| Diablo Regional Arts Association | $119,030 | 9 | 3% |
| East Bay Integrated Care Inc | $79,105 | 9 | 0% |
| Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism | $76,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Wellspring Educational Services Inc | $72,000 | 4 | 2% |
| John Muir Health Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kelsey | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lindsay Wildlife Museum | $30,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $25,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Twanda 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: Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Hedco Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb Foundation · John Muir Health · William a Kerr Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation
How this is measured
About Twanda Foundation
- How much does Twanda Foundation give?
- Twanda Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $390,366 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Twanda Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Twanda Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Las Trampas School Inc ($126k), Diablo Regional Arts Association ($119k), East Bay Integrated Care Inc ($79k).
- Does Twanda Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Twanda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Twanda Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Twanda Foundation based?
- Twanda Foundation is based in CA.
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