California · Private foundation
Sakana 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.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $4.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $136M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 41% of the organizations Sakana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $3.5M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $4.2M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $6.2M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Exploratorium | $3,325,000 | 3 | 3% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $3,175,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of the Musees Des Arts Decoratifs Inc | $1,026,000 | 2 | 48% |
| San Francisco Conservatory of Music | $850,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Headlands Center for the Arts | $400,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco | $325,000 | 3 | 1% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $312,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Portland Art Museum | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Art Fund | $109,166 | 1 | 5% |
| American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc | $107,500 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sakana Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bernard Osher Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Koret Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sakana Foundation
- How much does Sakana Foundation give?
- Sakana Foundation reported 50 itemized grants totaling $4,758,792, out of $5,103,792 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does Sakana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Science & Tech (14%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Sakana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Exploratorium ($3.3M), John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ($3.2M), Friends of the Musees Des Arts Decoratifs Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Sakana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sakana 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 Sakana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Sakana Foundation based?
- Sakana Foundation is based in CA.
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