California · Private foundation
Arata Brothers Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $336k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Arata Brothers Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $336k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $348k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $350k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $350k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $343k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $350k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $338k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 916 Ink | $725,800 | 9 | 13% |
| Improve Your Tomorrow Inc | $605,814 | 9 | 5% |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $250,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Women's Empowerment | $155,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Teach for America Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sageglobal | $122,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Reading Partners | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for the Blind Inc | $71,254 | 7 | 0% |
| A Touch of Understanding | $68,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 916 Ink | $725,800 | 9 | 13% |
| Improve Your Tomorrow Inc | $605,814 | 9 | 5% |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $250,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Women's Empowerment | $155,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Teach for America Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sageglobal | $122,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Reading Partners | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Society for the Blind Inc | $71,254 | 7 | 0% |
| A Touch of Understanding | $68,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yolo Basin Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Puentes | $37,320 | 2 | n/a |
| Sacramento Theatre Company | $28,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mandarins of Sacramento Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shoulder to Shoulder | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Urban Association of Forestry and Fire Professionals Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Marshall Foundation | $14,025 | 1 | 30% |
| Project Lifelong | $12,000 | 1 | 8% |
| City Year Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacramento Urban Debate League | $9,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Square Root Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rle Cares | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loaves and Fishes | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| FosterHope Sacramento | $4,600 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arata Brothers Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The California Endowment · Safe Credit Union · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Arata Brothers Trust
- How much does Arata Brothers Trust give?
- Arata Brothers Trust reported 8 grants totaling $335,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arata Brothers Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (52%), Education (10%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Arata Brothers Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 916 Ink ($726k), Improve Your Tomorrow Inc ($606k), Sierra Nevada Journeys ($250k).
- Does Arata Brothers Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arata Brothers Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arata Brothers Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Teichert Foundation, Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Kelly Foundation.
- Where is Arata Brothers Trust based?
- Arata Brothers Trust is based in CA.
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