California · Private foundation
Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $978k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $978,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $978,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k 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 | 1 | $978k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $716k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1.0M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $847k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $806k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $523k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $416k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $373k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $1,035,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Holderness School | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Bay School | $120,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Simmons University | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Women's Foundation of California | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southwest Harbor Public Library | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Kqed Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation
- How much does Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation give?
- Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $978,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (43%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Facing History & Ourselves Inc ($1.0M), Holderness School ($150k), Human Rights Watch Inc ($140k).
- Does Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation.
- Where is Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation based?
- Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation is based in CA.
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