California · Private foundation
Witte-Sakamoto Family 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.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 2 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $40k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $85k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $249k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $233k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelter Partnership Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Newport Beach Public Library Foundation | $49,800 | 2 | 5% |
| Downtown Dog Rescue | $45,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Orange County Museum of Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wiseplace | $27,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship Shelter Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelter Partnership Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Newport Beach Public Library Foundation | $49,800 | 2 | 5% |
| Downtown Dog Rescue | $45,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Orange County Museum of Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wiseplace | $27,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laguna Art Museum | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Northern Sonoma County Fire Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Witte-Sakamoto Family 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: Orange County Community Foundation · Nancy and Geoffrey Stack Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation
- How much does Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation give?
- Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (32%), Education (32%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friendship Shelter Inc ($100k), Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation ($100k), Shelter Partnership Inc ($50k).
- Does Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Witte-Sakamoto Family 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 Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Nancy and Geoffrey Stack Family Foundation, Macgillivray Family Foundation.
- Where is Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation based?
- Witte-Sakamoto Family Foundation is based in CA.
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