How much does Mydar Foundation give?

Mydar Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $330,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Mydar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Human Services (15%), Health (12%).

Who are Mydar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Girl Scouts of Northern California ($195k), A Home Within Inc ($95k), Portland Animal Welfare Team ($74k).

Does Mydar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mydar 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 Mydar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation.

Where is Mydar Foundation based?

Mydar Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Mydar 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.

$330k
Granted FY2023: 12
Grants FY2023: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 17%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2023: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2023: $115,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 17; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023: 4
Total assets, FY2023: $18k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Mydar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2023	12	$330k	17%
FY2022	16	$190k	31%
FY2021	17	$326k	29%
FY2020	17	$220k	53%
FY2019	9	$107k	n/a

87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Youth Development$250kHuman Services$175kHealth$139kArts & Culture$115kEnvironment$113kAnimals$94kEmployment$59kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Girl Scouts of Northern California	$195,000	3	1%
A Home Within Inc	$95,000	4	4%
Portland Animal Welfare Team	$74,000	5	4%
The Monkey Tail Ranch Inc	$55,000	4	7%
Ecotrust	$50,000	3	0%
Summer Search	$47,000	3	0%
Girls Garage	$45,000	4	1%
Sustainable Conservation	$40,000	3	0%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center	$40,000	2	0%
Foundation for Students Rising Above	$39,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Mydar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Girl Scouts of Northern California	$195,000	3	1%
A Home Within Inc	$95,000	4	4%
Portland Animal Welfare Team	$74,000	5	4%
The Monkey Tail Ranch Inc	$55,000	4	7%
Ecotrust	$50,000	3	0%
Summer Search	$47,000	3	0%
Girls Garage	$45,000	4	1%
Sustainable Conservation	$40,000	3	0%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center	$40,000	2	0%
Foundation for Students Rising Above	$39,000	3	0%
Angling for Relief	$36,000	5	n/a
Trevor Project Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa	$25,000	2	7%
Planet Bee Foundation	$23,000	5	2%
Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Jewish Educational and Cultural Centermakor Inc	$20,000	1	7%
The Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff	$13,000	1	0%
Wardrobe for Opportunity	$12,000	1	n/a
United Way of Merced County	$10,000	1	1%
Girls Build	$10,000	1	1%
Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International	$10,000	1	34%
International Community of Christ Chrch Secnd Advnt Estab Rel of Cos	$10,000	1	n/a
Brego Foundation	$10,000	2	n/a
Monarch School Project	$9,000	1	0%
Special Operations Warrior Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.

Mydar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mydar Foundation

How much does Mydar Foundation give?: Mydar Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $330,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Mydar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (21%), Human Services (15%), Health (12%).
Who are Mydar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Girl Scouts of Northern California ($195k), A Home Within Inc ($95k), Portland Animal Welfare Team ($74k).
Does Mydar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mydar 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 Mydar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation.
Where is Mydar Foundation based?: Mydar Foundation is based in CA.