California · Private foundation
Saya 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.
- $788k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $214,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Saya Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 | 27 | $788k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $499k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $541k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $356k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $359k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $335k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $328k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $475k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Horizon School Westside | $377,275 | 8 | 4% |
| The John Thomas Dye School | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern California School Of Theology | $61,650 | 6 | 0% |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $56,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Memon Organization of North America | $52,630 | 3 | 19% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Niswa Association Inc | $45,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Sustainable Healthcare Initiatives Now Empowering Humanity | $41,000 | 8 | 2% |
| University Muslim Medical Association Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saya 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: The Al-Ameen Foundation · Boukai Family Foundation · Ayesha Omar Khadbai Foundation · American Muslim Community Foundation · Islamic Relief USA · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Saya Foundation
- How much does Saya Foundation give?
- Saya Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $787,956 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Saya Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Education (24%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Saya Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New Horizon School Westside ($377k), The John Thomas Dye School ($75k), Southern California School Of Theology ($62k).
- Does Saya Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saya 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 Saya Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Al-Ameen Foundation, Boukai Family Foundation, Ayesha Omar Khadbai Foundation.
- Where is Saya Foundation based?
- Saya Foundation is based in CA.
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