Funder Standing / Salesforce Foundation

Salesforce Foundation

CA · EIN 943347800 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

12 of 22 organizations Salesforce Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 57.3%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
57.3%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$1,000,000
Range $100,000 – $7,338,600
Repeat-dollar share
68.3%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$7,338,600
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000,000
SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$5,000,000
CODEORGnew$2,000,000
BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC$1,000,000
CHILDREN FIRST FUND - THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC$1,000,000
ONEGOAL$1,000,000
THE EDUCATION TRUST INC$1,000,000
BURNING GLASS INSTITUTEnew$1,000,000
CAREERVILLAGE INCnew$1,000,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLEnew$1,000,000
COMMON SENSE MEDIAnew$1,000,000
DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBALnew$1,000,000
HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECTnew$1,000,000
IMENTORnew$1,000,000
KHAN ACADEMY INCnew$1,000,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONnew$1,000,000
TNTP INC (THE NEW TEACHER PROJECT)new$1,000,000
COLLEGE TRACKnew$500,000
SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what Salesforce Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.