Storm Castle Foundation
San Francisco, CA · EIN 20-8681172. Reported 163 grants totalling $6,909,733 to 63 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Storm Castle Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $2,195,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | $3,206,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $696,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Peninsula Bridge | Palo Alto, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harvard Law School | Cambridge, MA | $374,507 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| United Religious Initiative | San Francisco, CA | $275,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Stpauls Episcopal Church | Oakland, CA | $185,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Episcopal Impact Fund | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Yc Community Foundation | Bozeman, MT | $138,333 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| International Rescue | New York, NY | $125,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| US Olympic Committee | Colorado Springs, CO | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California State University Sacramento | Sacramento, CA | $65,705 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Teach for America | New York, NY | $50,365 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hillsborough Schools Foundation | Hillsborough, CA | $50,089 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Sky School District | Gallatin Gateway, MT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mayo Foundation | Rochester, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Questbridge | Palo Alto, CA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crystal Springs Uplands School | Hillsborough, CA | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Life Moves | Menlo Park, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Symphony | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Conservatory Theater | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | San Jose, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stanford University (stanford Live) | Stanford, CA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eagle Mount Bozeman | Bozeman, MT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | Bozeman, MT | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Team Go Sail | Greenport, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| UC Davis | Davis, CA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warren Miller Performing Arts Center | Big Sky, MT | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium | Monterey, CA | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Ballet | San Francisco, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale Young Global Scholars Program | New Haven, CT | $12,085 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Foundation for College Education | East Palo Alto, CA | $10,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| ACLU Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Heart Association | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jumpstart | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Museum of the Rockies | Bozeman, MT | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | Montgomery, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Baldricks Foundation | Monrovia, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hooker County Community | Mullen, NE | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Basketball Hall of Fame | Springfield, MA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ellis Marsalis Center for Music | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Save the Bay | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Third Option Foundation | Reston, VA | $4,999 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Food Studio | Lincoln, MA | $4,950 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hillsborough Beautification | Hillsborough, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ca Academy of Sciences | San Francisco, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Elizabeth Dixonrainy Day Fund | Fairfax, VA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Film Collaborative | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Art Museum | San Francisco, CA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Spanish Peaks Community Foundation | Big Sky, MT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bay Area Outreach and Recreation | Berkeley, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Individual Rights (fire) | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Golden Gate Bird Alliance | Berkeley, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte | San Jose, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Players Philanthropy Fund | Townson, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Cancer Society | Atlanta, GA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
40 of 63 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Peninsula Bridge
LOW INCOME EDUCATION ASSISTANCE - Questbridge
DLAI - 10/22/25 04:13PM WORKSHEET PRIVATE FOUNDATION - St Baldricks Foundation
MEDICAL RESEARCH: CHILDHOOD CANCER - Hillsborough Beautification
DVONG - 11/06/19 09:28AM WORKSHEET PRIVATE FOUNDATION - Bay Area Outreach and Recreation
COMMUNITY SUPPORT: DISABILITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 84 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 41 | $724,927 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 36 | $3,656,507 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $1,339,500 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $424,300 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 38 | $764,499 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
46% of its giving went to organizations in Maine. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Maine.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Storm Castle Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Realize Cpa 220 Jackson St Fl 2, San Francisco, CA, 94111. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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