California · Private foundation
The Sam Mazza Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $379k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Sam Mazza 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; $49k 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 | 30 | $379k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $443k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $420k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $408k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $381k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $822k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 79 | $790k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $622k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dance Brigade | $175,000 | 6 | 2% |
| World Arts West | $127,510 | 4 | 7% |
| Golden Thread Productions | $125,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Pacifica Resource Center | $116,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Bright Stars of Bethlehem Nfp | $98,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Ars Minerva | $97,500 | 7 | 22% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $87,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Opera Parallle | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| San Francisco Girls Chorus Inc | $83,600 | 7 | 1% |
| The University Corporation | $72,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sam Mazza Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Zellerbach Family Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Center for Cultural Innovation
How this is measured
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About The Sam Mazza Foundation
- How much does The Sam Mazza Foundation give?
- The Sam Mazza Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $378,940 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sam Mazza Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Youth Development (7%), Education (6%).
- Who are The Sam Mazza Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dance Brigade ($175k), World Arts West ($128k), Golden Thread Productions ($125k).
- Does The Sam Mazza Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sam Mazza Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sam Mazza Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Zellerbach Family Foundation, Phyllis C Wattis Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is The Sam Mazza Foundation based?
- The Sam Mazza Foundation is based in CA.
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