How much does Snap Foundation give?

Snap Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $5,935,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 77 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Snap Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (8%).

Who are Snap Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mission Asset Fund ($1.6M), Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc ($1.3M), Street Poets Inc ($1.2M).

Does Snap Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Snap 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 Snap Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.

Where is Snap Foundation based?

Snap Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Snap 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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 61
Grants FY2024: 77
Organizations funded FY2023: 81%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $250,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 77; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $140M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 81% of the organizations Snap Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	57	$5.8M	33%
FY2023	77	$7.5M	81%
FY2022	11	$972k	0%
FY2021	26	$4.6M	85%
FY2020	13	$2.6M	100%
FY2019	2	$140k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$20MArts & Culture$9.1MEducation$3.1MYouth Development$3.1MCommunity Improvement$2.5MHuman Services$1.1MEmployment$542kHousing & Shelter$400kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mission Asset Fund	$1,554,181	2	4%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$1,250,000	2	22%
Street Poets Inc	$1,200,000	1	75%
Southern California Grantmakers	$1,050,000	5	1%
Destination Crenshaw	$650,000	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$625,000	2	2%
Inner-City Arts	$500,000	2	6%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$500,000	2	2%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$475,000	4	19%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$405,000	3	n/a

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All grantees of Snap Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mission Asset Fund	$1,554,181	2	4%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$1,250,000	2	22%
Street Poets Inc	$1,200,000	1	75%
Southern California Grantmakers	$1,050,000	5	1%
Destination Crenshaw	$650,000	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$625,000	2	2%
Inner-City Arts	$500,000	2	6%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$500,000	2	2%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$475,000	4	19%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$405,000	3	n/a
Community Partners	$371,600	4	0%
Ready to Succeed	$370,250	3	11%
Latino Theater Company	$350,000	2	3%
Ghetto Film School la Inc	$350,000	2	n/a
Rediscover Center Inc	$310,000	3	13%
Journey House Inc	$300,100	4	16%
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc	$280,000	2	36%
Arts for LA	$275,000	2	11%
Restore Neighborhoods la Inc	$250,000	1	n/a
COOP Careers Inc	$250,000	3	1%
Actor's Gang Inc	$250,000	1	7%
Arts for Healing and Justice Network	$250,000	2	4%
A Place Called Home	$250,000	3	2%
Venice Arts	$235,000	3	6%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc	$225,000	3	6%
Kcrw Foundation Inc	$225,000	2	1%
Manifestworks	$200,000	2	10%
Armory Center for the Arts	$200,000	2	3%
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA	$200,000	2	7%
Homeboy Art Academy Inc	$200,000	2	6%
Young Storytellers	$200,000	2	6%
Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural Inc	$200,000	2	6%
Diy Girls	$200,000	2	6%
Barcid Foundation	$200,000	2	8%
PF Bresee Foundation	$200,000	2	2%
826la	$200,000	2	5%
Black Owned and Operated Community Land Trust Inc	$175,000	1	19%
Koreatown Youth and Community Center	$175,000	2	1%
A Noise Within	$150,000	2	2%
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes	$150,000	1	4%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles	$150,000	1	0%
Etm-La Inc	$150,000	1	5%
24th Street Theatre Company	$150,000	1	10%
Jail Guitar Doors	$150,000	2	5%
Arts Media and Entertainment Institute Inc	$150,000	1	34%
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles	$150,000	2	7%
Future Roots Inc	$150,000	2	8%
Ps Arts	$150,000	1	3%
Array Alliance Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Music Will Inc	$150,000	3	1%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment	$125,000	1	1%
Ica La	$125,000	2	2%
Clockshop	$125,000	2	10%
Amplifier Foundation	$115,000	1	11%
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company	$100,258	1	7%
Partners for Children South La	$100,000	1	15%
La Promise Fund	$100,000	1	1%
Social Justice Learning Institute	$100,000	1	2%
Youth Mentoring Connection	$100,000	1	5%
Urban Txt Teens Exploring Technology	$100,000	1	11%
Create CA	$100,000	1	6%
Black Women for Wellness	$100,000	1	2%
Insideout Writers Inc	$100,000	1	5%
Civic Nation	$100,000	1	3%
Californians for the Arts	$100,000	1	14%
Save the Music Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
Otis College of Art and Design	$100,000	1	0%
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles	$100,000	1	0%
Youth Leadership Institute	$85,000	2	1%
Women in Animation Inc	$75,000	1	9%
Lost Angels Childrens Project Inc	$75,000	2	4%
Faithworks Compton	$75,000	1	n/a
PS Science	$75,000	1	9%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation	$75,000	1	6%
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles	$75,000	1	4%
Community Initiatives	$75,000	1	0%
Better Youth Inc	$75,000	1	11%
Hollywood Cinema Productions Resources	$75,000	1	7%
Bric Foundation	$75,000	1	8%
Girls Make Beats Inc	$75,000	1	15%
Academy Foundation	$75,000	1	0%
Pen America Los Angeles Fka Pen Center USA West	$75,000	1	n/a
School on Wheels Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Filipino Migrant Center	$75,000	1	4%
Artlab21 Foundation Esmoa	$75,000	1	19%
Human Family Educational and Cultural Institute	$75,000	1	8%
Elevated Minds Embracing Righteousness and Gaining Equality	$75,000	1	49%
4c Lab	$66,600	3	18%
Global Arts Corporation	$60,110	2	9%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$60,000	1	0%
Jazz Hands for Autism	$50,000	1	6%
Los Angeles Music and Art School	$50,000	1	4%
Rainbow Labs Mentoring Inc	$50,000	1	10%
Bob Baker Marionette Theater	$50,000	1	2%
Edward Charles Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Black Image Center	$50,000	1	23%
Safe Place for Youth Inc	$50,000	1	0%
9 Dots Community Learning Center	$50,000	1	2%
Wrkz Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Harmony Project	$50,000	1	1%
Musicians At Play Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
No Easy Props Inc	$50,000	1	8%
Red Hen Press Inc	$50,000	1	4%
The Sola Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Heidi Duckler Dance	$50,000	1	6%
Leadersup	$50,000	1	1%
Great Public Schools Now	$45,000	1	0%
Dream Haus Inc	$40,000	2	18%
Fulcrum Arts	$39,883	1	2%
Dance and Dialogue	$30,000	1	8%
Elemental Music	$25,000	1	2%
Seq Hope Foundation	$16,600	2	n/a
The TYME Foundation	$16,600	2	30%
Khmer Girls in Action	$15,000	1	1%
Everybody Dance La	$10,000	1	0%
A Sense of Home	$7,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Snap Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 109 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 109.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA91.1× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · The Green 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 Snap Foundation

How much does Snap Foundation give?: Snap Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $5,935,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 77 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Snap Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (8%).
Who are Snap Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Mission Asset Fund ($1.6M), Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc ($1.3M), Street Poets Inc ($1.2M).
Does Snap Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Snap 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 Snap Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
Where is Snap Foundation based?: Snap Foundation is based in CA.