California · Private foundation
Waverley Street 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.
- $282M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 144
- Grants FY2024
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 92
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Waverley Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88M 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 | 118 | $239M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 92 | $200M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $119M | 80% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $104M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $79M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Imperative Foundation | $144,000,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $53,000,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Aspen Global Change Institute Inc | $41,000,000 | 1 | 37% |
| Thousand Currents | $40,000,000 | 3 | 66% |
| Clean Future Forum Inc | $36,000,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $12,750,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Root Capital Inc | $11,000,000 | 2 | 29% |
| The Malala Fund | $11,000,000 | 2 | 61% |
| FUSE Corps | $10,500,000 | 3 | 59% |
| California Volunteers Fund | $10,000,000 | 2 | 80% |
Show all 131 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($108M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waverley Street Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 32 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 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: The Schmidt Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc
How this is measured
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About Waverley Street Foundation
- How much does Waverley Street Foundation give?
- Waverley Street Foundation reported 144 grants totaling $282,093,983 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 92 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Waverley Street Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Philanthropy (11%), Education (9%).
- Who are Waverley Street Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Climate Imperative Foundation ($144M), Conservation International Foundation ($53M), Aspen Global Change Institute Inc ($41M).
- Does Waverley Street Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waverley Street 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 Waverley Street Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Schmidt Family Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Windward Fund.
- Where is Waverley Street Foundation based?
- Waverley Street Foundation is based in CA.
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