California · Private foundation
Pazala Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $424k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $213,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Pazala Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $816k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $424k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $828k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $484k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $314k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $248k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intersection for the Arts | $360,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Dancers Group | $155,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $77,325 | 4 | 0% |
| Huukuiko Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | $20,105 | 5 | 0% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cal Poly Humboldt Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Needs Project Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Vote Solar | $9,370 | 5 | 0% |
| As You Sow | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pazala Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Pazala Foundation
- How much does Pazala Foundation give?
- Pazala Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $423,709 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Pazala Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Environment (40%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Pazala Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Intersection for the Arts ($360k), Dancers Group ($155k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($77k).
- Does Pazala Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pazala 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 Pazala Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Pazala Foundation based?
- Pazala Foundation is based in CA.
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