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Sambar Private 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$129k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sambar Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$68k20%
FY20249$73k0%
FY20239$100k11%
FY202210$176k20%
FY202110$115k40%
FY20201$50k0%
FY20193$112k67%
FY20189$82k78%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$337kYouth Development$183kHuman Services$121kEducation$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHealth$43kCivil Rights$28kInternational$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
KS
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yorba Linda Friends Church$275,0005n/a
Lot318$165,000618%
Agape Children's Ministry Inc$60,00062%
Kidstlc Inc$56,47410%
Novo Mission Inc$37,5005n/a
Calvary Life Fellowship$37,4006n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$32,5005n/a
Platelet Disorder Support Association$13,00060%
Westmont College$10,00010%
Stars and Stripes Children's Foundation$10,00010%
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Sambar Private Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Yorba Linda Friends Church$275,0005n/a
Lot318$165,000618%
Agape Children's Ministry Inc$60,00062%
Kidstlc Inc$56,47410%
Novo Mission Inc$37,5005n/a
Calvary Life Fellowship$37,4006n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$32,5005n/a
Platelet Disorder Support Association$13,00060%
Westmont College$10,00010%
Stars and Stripes Children's Foundation$10,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10,00010%
Lee University$10,00010%
Tilly's Life Center$5,00010%
Coaches of Influence$5,0001n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2,50010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sambar Private Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLot318: $165,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetAgape Children's Ministry Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetKidstlc Inc: $56,474 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlatelet Disorder Support Association: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWestmont College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStars and Stripes Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLee University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTilly's Life Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Greater HorizonsMO13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sambar Private Foundation

How much does Sambar Private Foundation give?
Sambar Private Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $67,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sambar Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Youth Development (21%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Sambar Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yorba Linda Friends Church ($275k), Lot318 ($165k), Agape Children's Ministry Inc ($60k).
Does Sambar Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sambar Private 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 Sambar Private Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Horizons, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Sambar Private Foundation based?
Sambar Private Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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