Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Palo Alto, California

176
foundations with a Palo Alto address
$2.49B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
16
say they accept unsolicited
$10,681
median grant

Grantlas lists 176 foundations that gave a Palo Alto, California address on their tax filing — 175 private foundations and 1 grantmaking charity — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $2.49 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 16 of them (9%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Palo Alto foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 176 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Palo Alto, California
The Schmidt Family FoundationAccepts$130,000$185.4M$400–$8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Skoll FoundationAccepts$100,000$44.9M$1,400–$7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Shp Christian FoundationAccepts$30,000$4.2M$200–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jw & Hm Goodman Family CharitableAccepts$10,000$4.1M$1,000–$1.5MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Christopher & Constance LI CharitableAccepts$25,000$359,700$500–$300,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lamond Family FoundationAccepts$50,000$290,000$1,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
CM Capital FoundationAccepts$1,000$221,818$100–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
David Sen Lin Lee FoundationAccepts$20,000$85,000$10,000–$20,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James IV Association of Surgeons IncAccepts$15,000$45,000$15,000–$30,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wang and LI Family FoundationAccepts$10,000$38,800$5,000–$23,800FY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Receiving to Give FoundationAccepts$10,362$20,724$10,207–$10,517FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
For A Healthy TomorrowAccepts$10,000$10,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Perlroth Family FoundationAccepts$10,000$10,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Marie D Millard TrustAccepts$4,987$4,833$4,833–$5,140FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lester and Carol Ezrati Education Fund A Charitable TrustAccepts$2,100$4,200$1,200–$3,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Happy Healthy FoundationAccepts$550$3,701$500–$1,151FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Palo Alto Community FundCommunity foundationNot stated$20,000Over $5k only$1.8M$10,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationInvitation only$200,000$403M$50–$20MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Good Ventures FoundationInvitation only$138,467$306.7M$367–$31.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Carl Victor Page Memorial FoundationInvitation only$2M$285.3M$400,000–$235MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Waverley Street FoundationInvitation only$1M$282.1M$5,000–$20MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund forInvitation only$100,000$244.1M$1,000–$12.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative FoundationInvitation only$1.2M$235.4M$100,000–$60MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Jen-Hsun & Lori Huang FoundationInvitation only$516,711$126.3M$10,000–$41.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Koum Family FoundationInvitation only$350,000$81.4M$30,000–$5.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.