California · Private foundation
Volckmann Family 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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $776
- 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 Volckmann Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 5 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $36k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $41k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $157k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $58k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobtrain Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Live in Peace | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ecumenical Hunger Program | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Community Church | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Safehome Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Embarcadero Media Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lifemoves | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Journey Home Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobtrain Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Live in Peace | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ecumenical Hunger Program | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| New Community Church | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Safehome Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Embarcadero Media Foundation | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lifemoves | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Journey Home Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| California Family Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bridgton Academy | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Art of Yoga Project | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pathways Home Health and Hospice | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($58k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Volckmann Family 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Tosa Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Atkinson Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Volckmann Family Foundation
- How much does Volckmann Family Foundation give?
- Volckmann Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $11,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Volckmann Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (41%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Volckmann Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jobtrain Inc ($130k), Live in Peace ($28k), Ecumenical Hunger Program ($25k).
- Does Volckmann Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Volckmann Family 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 Volckmann Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation, Tosa Foundation.
- Where is Volckmann Family Foundation based?
- Volckmann Family Foundation is based in CA.
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