Compton Foundation Incorporated
Official website of the Compton Foundation (EIN 94-3142932), a San Francisco-based family foundation that intentionally spent its endowment and closed in 2025. The site includes mission and program pages, a comprehensive list of grant partners, staff/board listings, and archival 'The End' materials.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A California-based nonprofit (especially Bay Area/Berkeley) working in social justice, environment, democracy/reproductive justice, cross‑movement or arts work, with demonstrated programmatic results and capacity to manage six-figure grants or multi-year partnerships.
Good Fit
- • Located in California or strong Bay Area presence.
- • Work aligns with reproductive justice, environmental, democracy, reparative action, cross‑movement, or arts priorities.
- • Evidence of prior collaboration or recommendation from organizations already in the foundation’s network.
- • Organizational capacity to manage grants in the $100K–$300K range and to report on outcomes.
- • Track record of multi‑year or sustaining programs rather than one-off pilots.
Geography
Observed giving is geographically narrow: in 2024 about 92% of dollars stayed in California, with only small shares to two other states.
Recipient Variety
Across three years the foundation funded roughly a dozen distinct independent recipients each year across many program areas (arts, environment, democracy, reproductive justice, reparative action and more), showing a broad recipient set for its size despite dollar concentration among top grantees.
New Applicants
Directly stated application policy limits grants to preselected applicants, but observed behavior shows new entrants occur (4 new recipients in 2024), so unfamiliar organizations can be added but likely via invitation, nomination, or relationship pathways rather than an open RFP.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
