California · Private foundation
Working Assumptions Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $60k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $718k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Working Assumptions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 3 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $19k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $107k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $23k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $32k | 73% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Arts | $6,175 | 1 | 1% |
| We Are &Mother dba For All Mothers | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center of the East Bay | $535 | 1 | 0% |
| Compass Community Collaborative School | $369 | 1 | n/a |
| St Paul Academy and Summit School | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Las Fotos Project | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Boulder Valley School District | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Rosa City Schools | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ensworth School | $50 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Arts | $6,175 | 1 | 1% |
| We Are &Mother dba For All Mothers | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center of the East Bay | $535 | 1 | 0% |
| Compass Community Collaborative School | $369 | 1 | n/a |
| St Paul Academy and Summit School | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Ursuline Academy of Dallas Foundation Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Las Fotos Project | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| Boulder Valley School District | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Santa Rosa City Schools | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ensworth School | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Jefferson Union High School District | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Worth Country Day School Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Working Assumptions Foundation
- How much does Working Assumptions Foundation give?
- Working Assumptions Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Working Assumptions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (40%), Human Services (25%), Arts & Culture (24%).
- Who are Working Assumptions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Venice Arts ($6k), We Are &Mother dba For All Mothers ($6k), Jewish Community Center of the East Bay ($535).
- Does Working Assumptions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Working Assumptions Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Working Assumptions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Working Assumptions Foundation based?
- Working Assumptions Foundation is based in CA.
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