Kazan Mcclain Partners' Foundation
Oakland, CA · EIN 94-3192688. Reported 150 grants totalling $4,833,300 to 65 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Kazan Mcclain Partners' Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a named trust (NTEE T900).
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,750. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Area Legal Aid | Oakland, CA | $918,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Worksafe Inc | Oakland, CA | $300,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley, CA | $289,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | Jackson, MS | $230,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Alameda County Community Food Bank Inc | Oakland, CA | $196,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Law Sf Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $171,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Oakland Youth Development Center | Oakland, CA | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project Well | Oakland, CA | $124,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Impact Fund | Berkeley, CA | $122,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lend a Hand Foundation Inc of Northern California | Oakland, CA | $121,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | San Francisco, CA | $116,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mosaic Project | Oakland, CA | $100,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $94,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $87,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| California Rural Legal Assistance Inc | Modesto, CA | $81,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Berkeley Law Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shiloh Christian Fellowship | Longview, WA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Seven Tepees Youth Program | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the New Mission Campus | San Francisco, CA | $58,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pacific Bridge Club Inc | Lathrop, CA | $54,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Accelerate Change Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kovno Communications Inc | Berkeley, CA | $47,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Association of Occ and Env Clinics | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Morehouse College | Atlanta, GA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central American Resource Center Carecen of Northern California | San Francisco, CA | $39,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chinese American International School | San Francisco, CA | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Law Caucus | San Francisco, CA | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ucsf Foundation Investment Company | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc Oakland-Bay Area Chapter | Oakland, CA | $31,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| 100 Black Men of the Bay Area Inc | Oakland, CA | $30,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Centro Legal De La Raza Inc | Oakland, CA | $30,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Raza Centro Legal-San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Martin Luther King JR Freedom Center | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels of Alameda County | Oakland, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Equal Rights Advocates Inc | San Francisco, CA | $28,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| C R L a Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arc of Justice Productions Inc | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glad Tidings Church of God in Christ | Hayward, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | Andover, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Working America Education Fund | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dreamyard Project Inc | Bronx, NY | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| King Ridge Foundation Inc | Santa Rosa, CA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Turnout Activism Inc | Cambridge, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Bay Local Development Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Last Ride Inc | Fruitland Pk, FL | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alameda County Law Library | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kqed Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chapel & York US Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Glad Tidings Church Pc G | Lancaster, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Ability Center | Park City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park City Conservation Association | Park City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park City Cycling Club | Park City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ride for Racial Justice | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| USA Cycling Development Foundation | Colorado Spgs, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Immigrant Legal Defense | Oakland, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Institute for Workers Rights | Concord, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Bridges Inc | Oakland, CA | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Oregon Landwatch | Bend, OR | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
37 of 65 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 of 65 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $1,204,400 | $21,250 |
| 2022 | 39 | $1,117,600 | $17,000 |
| 2023 | 42 | $1,295,400 | $18,250 |
| 2024 | 37 | $1,215,900 | $24,300 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
85% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Kazan Mcclain Partners' Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 55 Harrison Street 400, Oakland, CA, 94607.
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