California · Private foundation
Snl 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.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,076
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,866
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Snl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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 | 15 | $187k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $133k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $30k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $9k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Detention International | $57,641 | 4 | 1% |
| Food Forward Inc | $54,315 | 3 | 0% |
| The Marshall Project Inc | $50,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $25,045 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Health Partners Inc | $10,344 | 3 | 1% |
| CalMatters | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Policy Institute Inc | $5,255 | 1 | n/a |
| RepresentUs | $5,076 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $5,069 | 2 | 0% |
| Craft Contemporary | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Detention International | $57,641 | 4 | 1% |
| Food Forward Inc | $54,315 | 3 | 0% |
| The Marshall Project Inc | $50,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $25,045 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Health Partners Inc | $10,344 | 3 | 1% |
| CalMatters | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Policy Institute Inc | $5,255 | 1 | n/a |
| RepresentUs | $5,076 | 1 | n/a |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $5,069 | 2 | 0% |
| Craft Contemporary | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California Rural Legal Assistance Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc | $611 | 2 | 0% |
| Public Counsel | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $55 | 1 | 0% |
| New Village Charter School Inc | $16 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Snl 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: California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Snl Foundation
- How much does Snl Foundation give?
- Snl Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $205,272 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Snl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (28%), International (17%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Snl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Just Detention International ($58k), Food Forward Inc ($54k), The Marshall Project Inc ($50k).
- Does Snl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Snl 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 Snl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation.
- Where is Snl Foundation based?
- Snl Foundation is based in CA.
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