California · Private foundation
Willison Family Charitable 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $363k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Willison Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 17 | $83k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $34k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $42k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $141k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $74k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $156k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $159k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $165k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John's Health Center Foundation | $285,100 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $204,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Schools Collaborative | $120,000 | 3 | 12% |
| St Monicas Catholic Church | $78,450 | 8 | n/a |
| High Desert Museum | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| School the World Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willison Family Charitable 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: Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Verizon Foundation · Greater Horizons · California Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Willison Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Willison Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Willison Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Willison Family Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $82,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Willison Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Religion (23%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Willison Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint John's Health Center Foundation ($285k), United Way Inc ($205k), Catholic Schools Collaborative ($120k).
- Does Willison Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Willison Family Charitable 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 Willison Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Verizon Foundation.
- Where is Willison Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Willison Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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