California · Private foundation
Upjohn California Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 27
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Upjohn California Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $61k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $57k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $58k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine Kernes Memorial Pool | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| California Missions Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carmel Valley Historical Society Inc | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Salinas Regional Sports Authority | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shared Adventures | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Upjohn California Fund
- How much does Upjohn California Fund give?
- Upjohn California Fund reported 7 grants totaling $60,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 27 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Upjohn California Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (16%), Community Improvement (9%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Upjohn California Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Josephine Kernes Memorial Pool ($6k), California Missions Foundation ($6k), Carmel Valley Historical Society Inc ($4k).
- Does Upjohn California Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Upjohn California Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Upjohn California Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Upjohn California Fund based?
- Upjohn California Fund is based in CA.
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