California · Private foundation
Maurice Amado 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $202,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 89
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Maurice Amado Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $673k 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 | 80 | $1.8M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.4M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Muir Health Foundation | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $340,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston | $310,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $203,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Temple Isaiah | $192,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Share Our Strength | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Echoing Green Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Library Foundation of Los Angeles | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 149 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Maurice Amado Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Maurice Amado Foundation
- How much does Maurice Amado Foundation give?
- Maurice Amado Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $1,763,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 89 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Maurice Amado Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (14%), Religion (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Maurice Amado Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: John Muir Health Foundation ($500k), Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($340k), Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ($311k).
- Does Maurice Amado Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Maurice Amado 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 Maurice Amado Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Albuquerque Community Foundation, Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Maurice Amado Foundation based?
- Maurice Amado Foundation is based in CA.
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