California · Private foundation
Tella Sakamoto 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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Tella Sakamoto Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | $136k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $118k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $237k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $118k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $174k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $121k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $81,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $75,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iitmaana | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Palo Alto Partners in Education | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | $81,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $75,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Iitmaana | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Palo Alto Partners in Education | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Abundant Grace Ministries | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unrwa USA National Committee Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hao Expression Dance Company | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| No One Left Behind | $3,683 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,450 | 6 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $2,312 | 6 | 0% |
| Consumer Reports Inc | $2,100 | 6 | 0% |
| The Kilgoris Project | $1,128 | 4 | 0% |
| Gods Abundant Grace Ministries | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Televisit Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Zohar Dance Company | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Palo Alto High School PTSA | $590 | 1 | 0% |
| Clean Water Fund | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| AXIS Dance Company | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Common Sense Media | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| National Police Accountability Project Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Palo Alto Community Fund | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tella Sakamoto 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 Intuit Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way Worldwide · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Tella Sakamoto Foundation
- How much does Tella Sakamoto Foundation give?
- Tella Sakamoto Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $136,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tella Sakamoto Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (14%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Tella Sakamoto Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Carnegie Mellon University ($81k), Swarthmore College ($75k), Sutter Bay Medical Foundation ($50k).
- Does Tella Sakamoto Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tella Sakamoto 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 Tella Sakamoto Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Intuit Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Tella Sakamoto Foundation based?
- Tella Sakamoto Foundation is based in CA.
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