California · Private foundation
Mara W Breech Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $582k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 54
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Mara W Breech Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 51 | $582k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $586k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $600k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $554k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $544k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Tracy Clinic | $159,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Leap | $132,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Western Los Angeles County Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 51 | $132,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $106,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Scripps College | $106,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The World Is Just a Book Away | $106,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Claremont Graduate University | $106,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chime Institute | $79,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Blind Childrens Center Inc | $53,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Aha Attitude Harmony Achievement | $53,000 | 5 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mara W Breech Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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 Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Mark Hughes Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mara W Breech Foundation
- How much does Mara W Breech Foundation give?
- Mara W Breech Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $581,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 54 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Mara W Breech Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Youth Development (10%), Health (7%).
- Who are Mara W Breech Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: John Tracy Clinic ($159k), Leap ($133k), Western Los Angeles County Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 51 ($133k).
- Does Mara W Breech Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mara W Breech Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mara W Breech Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ahmanson Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Mara W Breech Foundation based?
- Mara W Breech Foundation is based in CA.
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