California · Private foundation
Saw Island Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Saw Island Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,250,960
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Saw Island Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 20 | $347k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $136k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $129k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $199k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $205k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Challenge | $125,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Ragazzi Boys Chorus | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Theatre Wing Inc | $62,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Vida Verde Nature Education | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| CalMatters | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Castilleja School Foundation | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Phillips Brooks School | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Challenge | $125,000 | 5 | 24% |
| Ragazzi Boys Chorus | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Theatre Wing Inc | $62,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Vida Verde Nature Education | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| CalMatters | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Castilleja School Foundation | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Menlo School | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Phillips Brooks School | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Michael Harris Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 15% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Shelter Transport Animal Rescue Team | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sustainable Living Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($564k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saw Island Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Saw Island Foundation Inc
- How much does Saw Island Foundation Inc give?
- Saw Island Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $1,599,960 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Saw Island Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (87%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Saw Island Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Sports Challenge ($125k), Ragazzi Boys Chorus ($125k), American Theatre Wing Inc ($63k).
- Does Saw Island Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saw Island Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Saw Island Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Saw Island Foundation Inc based?
- Saw Island Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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