California · Private foundation
Warsh-Mott Legacy
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2022
- 25
- Grants FY2022
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Warsh-Mott Legacy’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 34 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Warsh-Mott Legacy named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $45,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 6
- Total assets, FY2022
- $51M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 10% of the organizations Warsh-Mott Legacy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $837k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $1.1M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $1.7M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration | $755,040 | 5 | 53% |
| Government Accountability Project | $600,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $465,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $460,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Global Exchange | $365,000 | 5 | 5% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $330,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for International Environmental Law Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy | $280,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Partnershipforciviljusticefund | $250,000 | 4 | 30% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Warsh-Mott Legacy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 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: Cs Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Windward Fund · Wallace Global Fund II · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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About Warsh-Mott Legacy
- How much does Warsh-Mott Legacy give?
- Warsh-Mott Legacy reported 25 grants totaling $1,156,420 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Warsh-Mott Legacy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Civil Rights (16%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Warsh-Mott Legacy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration ($755k), Government Accountability Project ($600k), Public Citizen Foundation Inc ($465k).
- Does Warsh-Mott Legacy fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Warsh-Mott Legacy 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 Warsh-Mott Legacy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cs Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Warsh-Mott Legacy based?
- Warsh-Mott Legacy is based in CA.
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