California · Private foundation
Upside Down 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.
- $245k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $592k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Upside Down Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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 | 22 | $245k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $184k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $159k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $116k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $161k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $127k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $95k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $54k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epicentre Church | $296,170 | 8 | n/a |
| I Planted a Seed Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Heavenly Treasures | $45,395 | 5 | 3% |
| Jews for Jesus | $28,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Thru The Bible Inc | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Axia Project | $15,024 | 1 | 33% |
| Avenues Pregnancy Clinic | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mission Flight | $10,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Upward Bound Study Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epicentre Church | $296,170 | 8 | n/a |
| I Planted a Seed Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Heavenly Treasures | $45,395 | 5 | 3% |
| Jews for Jesus | $28,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Thru The Bible Inc | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Axia Project | $15,024 | 1 | 33% |
| Avenues Pregnancy Clinic | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Mission Flight | $10,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Upward Bound Study Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Serving Foundation International Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Convalescent Aid Society | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jesus Use Me Movement | $6,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Frontier Mission Fellowship | $4,974 | 1 | n/a |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Development Assoc International | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Millennium Relief and Development Services Inc | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Crestview Preparatory School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Omf International Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope for Homeless Youth | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $700 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($658k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Upside Down Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Upside Down Foundation
- How much does Upside Down Foundation give?
- Upside Down Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $245,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Upside Down Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (59%), International (21%), Education (3%).
- Who are Upside Down Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Epicentre Church ($296k), I Planted a Seed Inc ($55k), Heavenly Treasures ($45k).
- Does Upside Down Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Upside Down 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 Upside Down Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Upside Down Foundation based?
- Upside Down Foundation is based in CA.
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