Saw Island Foundation Inc
Woodside, CA · EIN 23-7454106. Reported 76 grants totalling $5,772,690 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. 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. Saw Island Foundation Inc 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $1,367,540. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,914,540 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $1,062,650 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Sailing Museum | Newport, RI | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ragazzi Boys Chorus | Redwood City, CA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sports Challenge | Southlake, TX | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hoover Institution | North Canton, OH | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Theatre Wing | New York, NY | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sports Challenge | Palo Alto, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Stanford Law School | Stanford, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vida Verde Nature Education | San Gregorio, CA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Theater Wing | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Calmatters | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Castilleja School | Palo Alto, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hunger Coalition | Bellevue, ID | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Menlo School | Atherton, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Michael Harris Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Palo Alto Medical Foundation | Palo Alto, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Phillips Brooks School | Menlo Park, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Playworks Silicon Valley | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Wood River Community YMCA | Ketchum, ID | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Opera | San Francisco, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Enterprise Institute | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Humbolt Area Foundation | Bayside, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mangawhai Education Trust | Mangawhai Kaiwaka | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chapel & York US Foundation | New York, NY | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ncga Foundation (youth on Course) | Monterey, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Verbum Dei High School Lasater Scholarship Fu | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eat Learn Play | Oakland, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sustainable Living Foundation | Los Altos, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 31 (65%) 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 86%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Leland Stanford Junior University
TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CONDITIONS FOR INTERACTIONS AMONG DEMOCRACY, BROAD-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HR, AND THE LAW. - Stanford University
TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CONDITIONS FOR AND INTERACTIONS AMONG DEMOCRACY, BROAD-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HR, AND THE LAW. - The Sailing Museum
TO PRESERVE AMERICA'S SAILING LEGACY AND ENGAGE THE NEXT GENERATION. - Dartmouth College
TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL FINANCIAL AID - Ragazzi Boys Chorus
TO PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION. - Stanford Law School
TO OFFER FINANCIAL AID TO DIVERSE AND QUALITIED STUDENT BODY.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | $1,317,150 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 16 | $1,490,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 21 | $1,435,000 | $2,500 |
| 2023 | 20 | $1,530,540 | $5,000 |
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. 91% 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 $5,000. 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 Saw Island Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 524 Moore Road a, Woodside, CA, 94062. 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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