California · Nonprofit
Matlana
Matlana (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being MARK AND CYNTHIA ROSS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $-50050
What Matlana does
Mission
MATLANAS mission is to nurture curiosity, and create bridges across cultures and perceived divides. Our team draws on experience of off-the-beaten-track travel in over 100 countries, to tell surprising, funny, poignant stories in conversation with people around the world. Our work transports our audience to unfamiliar places and cultures revealing how much we have in common.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Production of web series "Our Looney Planet"
$106,803 spentof which $56,752 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $106,803.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Justine Shapiro
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Matlana’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Matlana draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Matlana receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Matlana
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Matlana: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Matlana?
- Matlana (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being MARK AND CYNTHIA ROSS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Matlana have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to Matlana.
- Who is the largest funder of Matlana?
- MARK AND CYNTHIA ROSS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Matlana find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing