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Unobskey Foundation

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.

$197k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$147,126
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$433k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Unobskey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$197k36%
FY20248$159k50%
FY202315$147k40%
FY202214$8k79%
FY202111$9k36%
FY20206$19k67%
FY201913$148k85%
FY201712$28kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$579kArts & Culture$45kHealth$43kReligion$13kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$8kRecreation & Sports$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Phillips Academy$549,18540%
University of Rochester$25,00010%
San Francisco Symphony$19,00050%
San Francisco Opera Association$11,80050%
Calais Regional Hospital$11,00020%
Goucher College$11,00020%
Congregation Beth Israel$11,0003n/a
State of Maine$5,0001n/a
Summer Ink Inc$4,50023%
San Francisco Ballet Association$3,50030%
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All grantees of Unobskey Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Phillips Academy$549,18540%
University of Rochester$25,00010%
San Francisco Symphony$19,00050%
San Francisco Opera Association$11,80050%
Calais Regional Hospital$11,00020%
Goucher College$11,00020%
Congregation Beth Israel$11,0003n/a
State of Maine$5,0001n/a
Summer Ink Inc$4,50023%
San Francisco Ballet Association$3,50030%
President and Trustees of Bates College$2,00010%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$1,60030%
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation$1,50010%
Squashdrive$1,50010%
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$1,30020%
New Century Chamber Orchestra$1,10010%
Humanity in Action Inc$1,00010%
Marin Country Day School$1,00010%
Fielding Graduate University$1,00010%
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$60010%
Calais Community Hospital$50010%
Kqed Inc$35020%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$30020%
Maine Maritime Academy$2001n/a
The Salvation Army$2002n/a
Yale University$1001n/a
The Olympic Club$10010%
Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation$10010%
Finca International Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Unobskey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Phillips Academy: $549,185 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Rochester: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Symphony: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Opera Association: $11,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalais Regional Hospital: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoucher College: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Ink Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSan Francisco Ballet Association: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco General Hospital Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSquashdrive: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Foundation: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Century Chamber Orchestra: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumanity in Action Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Country Day School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFielding Graduate University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalais Community Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Olympic Club: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinca International Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to Unobskey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Unobskey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Unobskey Foundation

How much does Unobskey Foundation give?
Unobskey Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $197,126 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Unobskey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Arts & Culture (6%), Health (6%).
Who are Unobskey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Phillips Academy ($549k), University of Rochester ($25k), San Francisco Symphony ($19k).
Does Unobskey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Unobskey 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 Unobskey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Unobskey Foundation based?
Unobskey Foundation 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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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