Grantmakers Concerned With
Petaluma, CA · EIN 20-2559651. Reported 50 grants totalling $3,751,334 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Grantmakers Concerned With, the IRS classifies it under philanthropy & grantmaking rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE T02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $68,125. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $90,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central American Resource Center- Carecen | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal Services for Children Inc | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative | Fresno, CA | $205,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc | Greensboro, NC | $193,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Orange County Community Foundation | Irvine, CA | $193,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative | Houston, TX | $168,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Latino Community Foundation of Colorado Inc | Denver, CO | $143,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors Inc | Nashville, TN | $143,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Chicago Community Foundation | Chicago, IL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Foundation of New Jersey | Morristown, NJ | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services | Lewiston, ME | $113,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Arkansas Community Foundation Inc | Little Rock, AR | $110,625 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Civic Fund Inc | Baltimore, MD | $110,625 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Philadelphia Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African Advocacy Networrk | San Francisco, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice | Oakland, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tides Center | San Francisco, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Immigrant Policy Center | Los Angeles, CA | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno | Fresno, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Community Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pangea Legal Services | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Todec Legal Center Perris | Moreno Valley, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Access to Justice Foundation | Austin, TX | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote - Michigan | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Este Poder | Lindale, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Organizing Project | Oshtemo, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc | Austin, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Latino Pride | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mano Amiga Sm | San Marcos, TX | $46,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Empowerment Organization of Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Bay Organizing Project | Santa Rosa, CA | $24,834 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equality Alliance of San Diego County | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Family Service of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Comite Civico Del Valle Inc | Brawley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
9 of 40 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $1,654,834 | $75,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $670,000 | $68,125 |
| 2023 | 2 | $100,000 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $1,326,500 | $62,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
41% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
21 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 83 grants totalling $8,107,750 to Grantmakers Concerned With. That is 33% of the 63 funders we can see giving to it. Those 21 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
15 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Together Foundation | New York | $2,090,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The California Endowment | California | $2,035,000 | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| Evelyn and Walter Haas JR Fund | California | $1,350,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| The James Irvine Foundation | California | $820,000 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Grove Foundation | California | $632,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Foundation to Promote Open Society | New York | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Heising-Simons Foundation | California | $370,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stupski Foundation | California | $112,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Annie E Casey Foundation Inc | Maryland | $105,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Warsh-Mott Legacy | California | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 21.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $68,125 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Grantmakers Concerned With's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 2178, Petaluma, CA, 94953.
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