California · Public charity
Unlikely Collaborators Inc
Using the perception box lens and framework UCI helps people untangle the stories holding them back through experiences, storytelling, impact, science and investments.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $621,784
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $151M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Unlikely Collaborators Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $4.8M | 88% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.3M | 71% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $393k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
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, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute | $1,000,000 | 3 | 71% |
| Kalw Public Media Inc | $877,704 | 2 | 6% |
| Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc | $871,784 | 2 | 6% |
| Naropa University | $572,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Miami | $409,004 | 3 | 0% |
| Fireside Project Inc | $236,357 | 2 | 14% |
| End Well Foundation | $154,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Mass Design Group Ltd | $150,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Dougy Center Inc | $136,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Mindshift Recovery Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 14% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Unlikely Collaborators Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Unlikely Collaborators Foundation · Impactassetsinc · BESS Family Foundation · The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About Unlikely Collaborators Inc
- How much does Unlikely Collaborators Inc give?
- Unlikely Collaborators Inc reported 44 grants totaling $5,075,952 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Unlikely Collaborators Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (20%), Health (19%).
- Who are Unlikely Collaborators Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute ($1.0M), Kalw Public Media Inc ($878k), Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc ($872k).
- Does Unlikely Collaborators Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Unlikely Collaborators Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Unlikely Collaborators Foundation, Impactassetsinc, BESS Family Foundation.
- Where is Unlikely Collaborators Inc based?
- Unlikely Collaborators Inc is based in CA.
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