Pilara Family Foundation
San Francisco, CA · EIN 84-1694739. Reported 47 grants totalling $8,575,760 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Pilara Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $57,362. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,925 and $164,209; the smallest was $1,023 and the largest $1,824,770. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $1,824,770 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sfmoma | San Francisco, CA | $1,444,630 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA | $916,227 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | Houston, TX | $641,043 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nevada Museum of Art | Reno, NV | $411,038 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Art Museum of Sf | San Francisco, CA | $406,815 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ucsf Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory | San Francisco, CA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Fine Arts Museums Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $275,437 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Institue of Art Museum | Detroit, MI | $230,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ellison Institute Research Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Hawaii Community Hospital | Waimea, HI | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Mary's College of California | Moraga, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crocker Art Museum | Sacramento, CA | $164,209 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee, WI | $118,765 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA | $109,167 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stone Research Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $97,350 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art | Overland Park, KS | $87,555 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Phillips Collection | Washington, DC | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| J Paul Getty Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $57,362 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oakland Museum of California | Oakland, CA | $47,432 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| De Saisset Museum | Santa Clara, CA | $45,562 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Block Island Medical Center | New Shoreham, RI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Staford University | Stanford, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Guardsmen | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stanford Library | Redwood City, CA | $15,675 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of Fai | New York, NY | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aperture Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Napa Valley Unified School District | Napa, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Variable West | Long Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Creativity Explored | San Francisco, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum of the City of New York | New York, NY | $2,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catchlight | San Francisco, CA | $1,023 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
8 of 38 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 37%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $111,500 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | $1,417,130 | $708,565 |
| 2023 | 11 | $922,750 | $30,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $6,124,380 | $100,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 46% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $57,362. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Pilara Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 801 Montgomery Street 3RD Fl, San Francisco, CA, 94133. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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