The Tony Robbins Foundation
San Diego, CA · EIN 33-0492446. Reported 62 grants totalling $6,266,644 to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 24% 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. 27% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $64,996; the smallest was $4,514 and the largest $833,739. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marici | San Francisco, CA | $1,507,570 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Embrace Global | Murrieta, CA | $883,739 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Our Rescue | Sandy, UT | $716,040 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fraternite Notre Dame Inc | Chicago, IL | $668,949 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sharing Excess | Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Academy Prep Foundation Inc | Lakeland, FL | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Farmlink Project | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| No Limits Theater Group Inc | Culver City, CA | $150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Preventive Medicine Research Institute | Sausalito, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Street Dreamz Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| West Virginia Univ Foundation Inc | Morgantown, WV | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Empowerment Plan | Detroit, MI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Zambesia Conservation Alliance Inc | Cat Spring, TX | $74,307 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida Inc | Maitland, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| STEM Inspires | Big Sky, MT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $51,260 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc | Tampa, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Communities Foundation of Texas | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healing California | Santa Fe Spgs, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ladies Empowerment and Action Program Inc | South Miami, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Midlands Housing Alliance Inc | Columbia, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Plano Metro Rotary Club | Plano, TX | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Diaper Bank | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | Palmetto Bay, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Alliance of Concerned Men | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The George G Glenner Alzheimers Fam Ily Centers Incorporated | Chula Vista, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| William Wendt Center for Loss and H Ealing | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alpine Christian School | Alpine, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Love Light and Melody a Not Forprofit Corporation | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mighty Writers | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | Edina, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Warm Inc | Glen Mills, PA | $24,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Creighton Community Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Therapy Center Inc | Alpine, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | Wailuku, HI | $18,405 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cambodian Childrens Fund | Santa Monica, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partners for Youth With Disabilities | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Diego Rescue Mission Inc | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hopecam Inc | Reston, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Naples Education Center Inc | Naples, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The World Orphan Fund Inc | Randolph, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| A Kids Place of Tampa Bay | Brandon, FL | $9,560 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transcendance Youth Arts Project | San Diego, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | West Chester, PA | $4,514 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
9 of 46 (20%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Operation Underground Railroad
TO HELP END SEX TRAFFICKING - Fraternite of Notre Dame
TO SUPPORT HOMELESS FOOD KITCHEN - Academy Prep Foundation Inc
SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN - The Empowerment Plan
SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS - STEM Inspires
YOUTH PROGRAMS FOR UNDERSERVED CHILDREN - Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Fl Inc
DONATION TO DARYL DAVIS EXIBITION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | $1,134,065 | $50,000 |
| 2021 | 15 | $1,322,350 | $37,305 |
| 2022 | 19 | $1,343,589 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $2,466,640 | $50,000 |
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
50% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $50,000 -- 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 The Tony Robbins Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 5230 Carroll Canyon Road Suite 306, San Diego, CA, 92121.
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