California · Public charity
Ruth Asawa Fund
Mission statement: to support education in the performing and visual arts in non-profit private and public elementary and secondary schools in san francisco, california
- $122k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $117k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,133
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $789k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Ruth Asawa Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 4 | $97k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $43k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $50k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $35k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $29k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of SCRAP Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 5% |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | $56,133 | 2 | n/a |
| Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| James Lick Middle School PTSA | $10,200 | 3 | 6% |
| Artsmart | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Performing Arts Workshop Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Jose Museum of Art Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company | $6,088 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Music Center | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Youth Theatre | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of SCRAP Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 5% |
| PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc | $56,133 | 2 | n/a |
| Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| James Lick Middle School PTSA | $10,200 | 3 | 6% |
| Artsmart | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Performing Arts Workshop Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Jose Museum of Art Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company | $6,088 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Music Center | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Youth Theatre | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| PTA California Congress of PTA Alvarado School | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Conservatory Theatre Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Odc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Arc San Francisco | $2,448 | 1 | 0% |
| Spark Sf Public Schools | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth Asawa Fund 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Nicholson Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Koret Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ruth Asawa Fund
- How much does Ruth Asawa Fund give?
- Ruth Asawa Fund reported 5 itemized grants totaling $116,633, out of $121,633 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ruth Asawa Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Youth Development (1%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are Ruth Asawa Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of SCRAP Inc ($150k), PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc ($56k), Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco ($15k).
- Does Ruth Asawa Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth Asawa Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Ruth Asawa Fund based?
- Ruth Asawa Fund is based in CA.
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