California · Nonprofit
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,879 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($68,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $887k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts does
Mission
Operate and maintain a cultural center/museum for the display of arts and craft objects, woodworkings, sculptures, decorations, furniture and tools from the American "Arts and Craft Movement", as well as a home built by Samuel S. Maloof, a master woodworker and furniture maker.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historic Preservation - The Maloof Foundation owns, operates and maintains the Historic Home and Workshop of California Modernist woodworker Sam Maloof and his wife Alfreda. The Maloof is a member of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program established by the National Trust. Maloof Historic Buildings are open during regular public hours for tours that introduce visitors to the art and lives of the Maloof family, and its lasting influence.
$159,477 spent21% of program spendingHorticulture - The Maloof landscape consists of nearly 6-acre site, encompassing eight zones planted with more than 375 species of deciduous, evergreen, cactus, ground cover and grass. The drought-tolerant, water-wise Discovery Garden is also a certified wildlife habitat, and offers examples of plants traditionally used by California Native American communities for food, medicine and basketry. The Discovery Garden welcomes school children and teens from local schools, and visitors from around the world.
$102,298 spent14% of program spendingEducation - The Maloof Foundation is a Smithsonian Affiliate, including museum, learning center and workshop. Education programs include docent-led tours of the Maloof Historic Home and Workshop and Maloof-inspired woodworking courses offered in on-site workshops for adults, veterans, and others. Maloof Education programs also annually serve more than 1,000 K-12 students on-site and in local public schools with programs in the arts, creativity and environmental awareness.
$311,767 spent41% of program spendingOther Program Services - The Maloof Foundation originates gallery exhibitions drawn from its permanent collection holdings, which include the world's largest collection of Sam Maloof furniture. Touring exhibitions originating elsewhere explore themes of art, craft and environmental sustainability. The 2400-square foot art gallery is open for viewing, offered free to all. The Maloof also lends art from its collection for display in exhibitions at other museums. The Maloof Store, part of the Foundation's mission to cultivate and nurture artists, offers for sale works of art by local artists, as well as art prints, woodworking, books, prints, souvenirs and related merchandise.
$180,684 spent$170,357 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $754,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $9.0M to $8.3M (−8%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% · 2024 40% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $42k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $336k on record.
- Department of the Interior$336k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts: 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 Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts?
- Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,879 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($68,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $162,879 in grants to Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation For Arts and Crafts 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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