Funding search · EIN 942278431 · Los Altos, CA

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Name: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

3,141
grants reported: $1.12B
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $150,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

science environment communities families just societies conservation effectiveness

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Ocean science and marine research, above all MBARI in Moss Landing
Climate mitigation regranting through ClimateWorks and allied intermediaries
Reproductive health and rights, US and international
Democracy, civic participation, immigrant rights in Washington DC
Children's health and early childhood policy, California and Mississippi
Sustainable fisheries and seafood supply chain reform

Typical grant

The median grant is $150,000 and the middle half sits between $75,000 and $250,000, so most of the portfolio is ordinary program and operating support. The very large checks are structural rather than competitive: $54.9M to MBARI, which the foundation created, and $20M to the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Between those poles sits a band of $600K to $10M grants going to intermediaries and regrantors like ClimateWorks, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and Climate Breakthrough, several of which appear multiple times in a single year, which signals renewals and tranched multi-year commitments.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“Environment and Science”
“Just Societies”
“Families and Communities”
“Special Initiatives”
“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”

Positioning adjacent work

Map your work onto one named bucket: Environment and Science, Just Societies, or Families and Communities. Do not straddle.
Ask in the $150,000 to $600,000 band unless you are a national intermediary with regranting capacity.
University grants cluster in Environment and Science: MIT, Stony Brook, Chicago. Lead with ocean, climate, or food systems science.
Frame the ask as general operating support where possible. They fund institutions, not just projects.

Worth knowing: California takes 1,096 of 3,141 grants and DC another 437, so this is a Bay Area and Beltway funder with a strong ocean and Monterey Bay anchor. A small set of intermediaries, ClimateWorks and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in particular, absorb repeat eight-figure and seven-figure grants, and the relationship-driven core of the portfolio, MBARI and the Lucile Packard Foundation, is not open to newcomers.

36 grants matching “advisor” · $41.2M

$5.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$1.4M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Environment and Science
$750,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$500,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$500,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Environment and Science
$300,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Special Initiatives
$218,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$150,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Special Initiatives
$100,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Organizational Effectiveness
$50,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Families and Communities
$50,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Special Initiatives
$5.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$3.5M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$1.3M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$1.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Environment and Science
$750,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Special Initiatives
$650,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Special Initiatives
$300,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Environment and Science
$185,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$150,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Special Initiatives
$100,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$62,500
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$10.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Reproductive health
$3.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Special opportunities
$1.6M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Organizational effectiveness
$1.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Conservation and science
$516,191
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Organizational effectiveness
$500,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Justice and equity
$500,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
President's fund
$470,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Conservation and science
$187,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Conservation and science
$149,942
Blue-Green Advisors Limited · 2022
Conservation and science
$120,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Local grantmaking
$119,925
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Conservation and science
$100,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
President's fund

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute3 grants · $123.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute2 grants · $76.3M
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children'S Health1 grant · $40.0M
Climateworks Foundation9 grants · $28.5M
Rf Catalytic Capital1 grant · $25.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors23 grants · $22.9M
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children'S Health1 grant · $20.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors12 grants · $18.1M
Climate Breakthrough4 grants · $17.9M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation10 grants · $11.8M

Giving over time

$420.4M

2022

$358.1M

2023

$342.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 3,141 grants.

$54.9M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute · Moss Landing, CA · 2024
Mbari
$53.1M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute · Moss Landing, CA · 2023
Mbari
$51.3M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute · Moss Landing, CA · 2022
Mbari
$40.0M
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children'S Health · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Lpfch
$25.0M
Rf Catalytic Capital · New York City, NY · 2023
Special Initiatives
$25.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute · Moss Landing, CA · 2022
Mbari
$20.0M
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children'S Health · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
Lpfch
$15.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute · Moss Landing, CA · 2023
Mbari
$10.5M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$10.0M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$10.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Reproductive health
$7.6M
The Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$7.5M
Climate Breakthrough · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$6.0M
Climate Breakthrough · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$6.0M
Climate Breakthrough · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Conservation and science
$5.8M
The Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Conservation and science
$5.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation · Monterey, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$5.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$5.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation · Monterey, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$5.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$5.0M
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation · Monterey, CA · 2022
Mbaq
$5.0M
Planned Parenthood Federation of America · New York, NY · 2022
Reproductive health
$5.0M
Stichting European Climate Foundation · 2022
Conservation and science
$5.0M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Conservation and science
$4.5M
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2022
Conservation and science
$4.0M
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Families and Communities
$3.5M
Climate Breakthrough · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$3.5M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$3.5M
United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Conservation and science
$3.1M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2023
Matching Gift - General Operating Support
$3.0M
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2024
Families and Communities
$3.0M
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2022
Conservation and science
$3.0M
Island Conservation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022
Special opportunities
$3.0M
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022
Justice and equity
$3.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Special opportunities
$3.0M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2024
Matching gift - general operating support
$2.8M
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Organizational effectiveness
$2.8M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Reproductive health
$2.5M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$2.0M
Ipas · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Just Societies
$2.0M
Capital for Good USA · Paoli, PA · 2023
Just Societies
$2.0M
United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Environment and Science
$1.9M
Ethiopian Public Health Association · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.7M
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.7M
Island Conservation · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.7M
Momsrising Education Fund · Bellevue, WA · 2024
Families and Communities
$1.7M
Climate Lead · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.6M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2022
Organizational effectiveness
$1.5M
Defending American Values Coalition · Washington, DC · 2024
Just Societies
$1.5M
Democracy Forward Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Special Initiatives
$1.5M
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund · New Orleans, LA · 2023
Just Societies
$1.5M
Hope Enterprise Corporation · Jackson, MS · 2023
Special Initiatives
$1.5M
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte · San Jose, CA · 2023
Families and Communities
$1.5M
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2023
Just Societies
$1.5M
Protect Democracy Project · Washington, DC · 2023
Just Societies
$1.5M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Conservation and science
$1.5M
Compass Science Communication Incorporated · Clackamas, OR · 2022
Conservation and science
$1.5M
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Conservation and science
$1.5M
Ibis Reproductive Health · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.5M
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte · San Jose, CA · 2022
Local grantmaking
$1.5M
Population Action International · Washington, DC · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.4M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Just Societies
$1.4M
Ipas · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Just Societies
$1.3M
Dkt International · Washington, DC · 2023
Just Societies
$1.3M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2024
Just Societies
$1.3M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.3M
Speak Up Africa · 2024
Just Societies
$1.3M
Guttmacher Institute · New York, NY · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.3M
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Conservation and science
$1.3M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York City, NY · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$1.3M
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022
Conservation and science
$1.2M
First Focus On Children · Washington, DC · 2024
Families and Communities
$1.2M
Ipas · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Just Societies
$1.2M
Partnership for Public Service · Washington, DC · 2022
Democracy, rights & governance
$1.2M
The International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and · Seattle, WA · 2022
Reproductive health
$1.1M
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization · 2023
Special Initiatives
$1.1M
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Washington, DC · 2023
Special Initiatives
$1.1M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Families and Communities
$1.1M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Children, families, and communities
$1.1M
Amplifychange · 2024
Just Societies
$1.1M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.1M
Fs Feminista · New York, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$1.1M
Guttmacher Institute · New York, NY · 2023
Just Societies
$1.0M
Policy Impact · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Organizational Effectiveness
$1.0M
Chinese Progressive Association · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.0M
Faith in Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
National Immigration Law Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Special Initiatives
$1.0M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.0M
Stichting European Climate Foundation · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.0M
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024
Environment and Science
$1.0M
The San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Families and Communities
$1.0M
United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
United We Dream Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Just Societies
$1.0M
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2023
Environment and Science
$1.0M
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Environment and Science
$1.0M
Ecsv · San Jose, CA · 2023
Families and Communities
$1.0M
Engage R&D · Pasadena, CA · 2023
Families and Communities

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.