California · Private foundation
Valhalla Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $132M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 75
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $527M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Valhalla Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 75 | $120M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $108M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $80M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $60M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $53M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $20M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Meridian Partners Inc | $45,000,000 | 5 | 5% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $40,165,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $33,000,000 | 4 | 4% |
| City Fund | $25,000,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Kipp Foundation | $21,000,000 | 5 | 8% |
| One Acre Fund | $18,082,397 | 6 | 2% |
| Waterford Institute Inc | $17,084,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund | $14,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Educate Girls | $10,000,000 | 4 | 26% |
| The Rand Corporation | $10,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 123 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($36M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Valhalla Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Pritzker Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About Valhalla Foundation
- How much does Valhalla Foundation give?
- Valhalla Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $131,719,936 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 75 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Valhalla Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Valhalla Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Blue Meridian Partners Inc ($45M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($40M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($33M).
- Does Valhalla Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Valhalla 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 Valhalla Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gates Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Valhalla Foundation based?
- Valhalla Foundation is based in CA.
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