California · Private foundation
Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $63M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 49
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $199M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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 | 43 | $63M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $21M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $27M | 62% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $29M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $43M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $32M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University Foundation | $51,441,667 | 5 | 16% |
| Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation | $15,000,000 | 3 | 58% |
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | $12,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $10,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The College Preparatory School | $8,000,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Oakland Museum of California | $7,500,000 | 2 | 22% |
| The Head Royce School | $5,000,000 | 2 | 7% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $5,000,000 | 1 | 6% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | $2,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($80M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Lowell Berry Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the Bay Area · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation with peer funders
About Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation
- How much does Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation give?
- Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $63,067,474 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 49 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oregon State University Foundation ($51M), Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation ($15M), Bellarmine College Preparatory ($12M).
- Does Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation based?
- Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation is based in CA.
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