Unlikely Collaborators Inc
West Hollywood, CA · EIN 88-0928669. Reported 53 grants totalling $6,719,822 to 46 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, 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 Unlikely Collaborators Inc, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropic organization (NTEE T99).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 15% 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. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. 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 $75,000. Half of what it reported fell between $45,000 and $125,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $621,784. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute | San Francisco, CA | $1,000,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kalw Public Media Inc | San Francisco, CA | $877,704 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc | New York, NY | $871,784 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Naropa University | Boulder, CO | $572,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $409,004 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fireside Project Inc | San Francisco, CA | $236,357 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| End Well Foundation | Healdsburg, CA | $154,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mass Design Group | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dougy Center Inc | Portland, OR | $136,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Entertainment Industry Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mindshift Recovery Inc | Scituate, MA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mindfulness First | Cave Creek, AZ | $109,353 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $107,890 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bring Change 2 Mind | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Source Wellness | El Cerrito, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sounds True Foundation | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Street Poets Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $92,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arts for Healing and Justice Network | Los Angeles, CA | $85,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garrison Institute | Garrison, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Igda Foundation | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inward Bound Mindfulness Education Inc | Attleboro, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| John P Mcgovern Museum of Health & Medical Science | Houston, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Peace Studio Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dear Jack Foundation Inc | Littleton, CO | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medicinal Media Inc | Pasadena, CA | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Drala Mountain Center | Red Fe Lks, CO | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mindful Life Project | Richmond, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Motus Theater | Boulder, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wholeschool Mindfulness Inc | Wrentham, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Closegap | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Foundation for Art and Healing Inc | Brighton, MA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Usona Institute Inc | Fitchburg, WI | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walker West Music Academy | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magik Magik Orchestra | Sausalito, CA | $31,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Is Alive Ministries Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation | Manhattan Beach, CA | $26,280 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Documentary Association Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unusual Suspects Theatre Co | Pasadena, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Directions for Women Inc | Costa Mesa, CA | $23,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kindness Org Inc | New York, NY | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Stray Theater Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
5 of 46 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
Support programs, tools, and content on mindfulness-based emotional intelligence, empathy, compassion, resilience, and leadership, promoting sustainable well-being, motivation, and high performance for teams, organizations and individuals. - Kalw Public Media Inc
A project that will spark, empower, and guide a series of projects featuring the pairing of unlikely collaborators to unlock new perspectives. - Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc Dba the Moth
Promote understanding and connection through the art and craft of storytelling, and to honor and celebrate the diversity and commonality of human experience because Moth stories like, Perception Boxes, honor a broad range of experiences and enable us to see and be seen, to forge deeper connections with others, and to feel a shared sense of humanity. - Mindshift Recovery Inc
Support the development of a national addiction recovery community, programs to bring the Mindshift method to recovery residences and similar environments to help people break out of existing habits and modes of thinking into wider, more expansive perspectives, and eventually can create societal change. - Fireside Project Inc
Support the growth of the psychedelic hotline to increase free integration support, help more people avoid emergency services and avoid physical or emotional harms by training 400 volunteers over the next two years. That training, followed by a year of service, is inherently Perception Box-expanding by teaching people the limits of their own world views and systems of thinking and cultivating a sense of humility and service. - The Peace Studio Inc
Support the launch of the "Artist as a Catalyst" program in Los Angeles, investing in emerging artistic leaders to harness their creative potential, overcome self-doubt, and maximize their impact on their community and the world.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | $393,333 | $196,666 |
| 2023 | 7 | $1,250,537 | $125,000 |
| 2024 | 44 | $5,075,952 | $75,000 |
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
50% 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 $75,000 -- 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 Unlikely Collaborators Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 44 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: 8605 Santa Monica Blvd 99722, West Hollywood, CA, 90069.
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