California · Nonprofit
THE FULLER FOUNDATION
THE FULLER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,597,207 to it, the largest being THE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC ($40,330,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE FULLER FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE FULLER FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE FULLER FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$55M
Recipients
205
Contributions on record
$43M
Donors on record
23
Payments out are 1.30x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vivian L Smith Foundationshared funders
- Egtvedt Charitable Trust Special 1portfolio match
- Caldwell Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $182k.
11 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE FULLER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
THE FULLER FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vivian L Smith Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Egtvedt Charitable Trust Special 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caldwell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calvin Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Collins Fisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ciosportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stewardship Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Feed Education and Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merrick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elkins Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE FULLER FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
29%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Evanston Development LLC · partnership
- Fuller Endowment Fund LLC · partnership
- Fuller Investment Management Company · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (4) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FULLER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION?
- THE FULLER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,597,207 to it, the largest being THE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC ($40,330,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE FULLER FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE FULLER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $42,597,207 in grants to THE FULLER FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FULLER FOUNDATION?
- THE GRACE AND MERCY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FULLER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing