California · Nonprofit
THE NARAS FOUNDATION
THE NARAS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,063 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John Pritzker Family Fundshared funders
- The Cma Foundationportfolio match
- Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $230k → $200k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $932k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING Arts & Sciences Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NARAS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NARAS FOUNDATION’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
THE NARAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 THE NARAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of THE NARAS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $410k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- John Pritzker Family Fundshared fundersCA · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Music Publishers Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gia Maione Prima Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Givesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wise Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce & George Wein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John & Joan D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grammy Museum Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE NARAS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 THE NARAS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE NARAS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NARAS FOUNDATION?
- THE NARAS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,063 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NARAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $430,063 in grants to THE NARAS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NARAS FOUNDATION?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NARAS FOUNDATION 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing