California · Private foundation
Vaquero Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $152k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2026
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 7
- Total assets, FY2026
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 30% of the organizations Vaquero Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 47 | $152k | 23% |
| FY2025 | 43 | $131k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $90k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $79k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $86k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $123k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $84k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $72k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Song for Charlie Inc | $71,800 | 6 | 2% |
| Food Bank for Monterey County | $61,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Santa Catalina School | $54,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $41,100 | 10 | 0% |
| Future Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County | $41,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mary Graham Childrens Foundation | $37,250 | 9 | 3% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $29,750 | 5 | 0% |
| St Anne Village Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 3% |
| St Mary's Community Services | $20,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vaquero Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · The 54 Fund · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · Henry and Carol Zeiter Charitable Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · Port City Operating Company LLC · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Stockton Rotary Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Vaquero Foundation
- How much does Vaquero Foundation give?
- Vaquero Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $152,300 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Vaquero Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (26%), Food & Nutrition (24%), Health (17%).
- Who are Vaquero Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Song for Charlie Inc ($72k), Food Bank for Monterey County ($61k), Santa Catalina School ($55k).
- Does Vaquero Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vaquero 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 Vaquero Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cortopassi Family Foundation, The 54 Fund, San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Vaquero Foundation based?
- Vaquero Foundation is based in CA.
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