Mara W Breech Foundation
Santa Monica, CA · EIN 95-4474892. Reported 210 grants totalling $2,284,840 to 63 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. Mara W Breech 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 $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $16,500; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $33,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Tracy Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | $126,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children's Art Village-Sevalaya | Santa Monica, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leap | New Haven, CT | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC San Diego-Math for America | La Jolla, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Van Nuys, CA | $102,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blink Now | Mendham, NJ | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Claremont Graduate University | Claremont, CA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Overland Avenue Elementary School | Los Angeles, CA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Scripps College | Claremont, CA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teach for America | Los Angeles, CA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The World Is Just a Book Away | Santa Monica, CA | $84,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stanford Center to Support Excellence in Teaching | Stanford, CA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chime Institute | Northridge, CA | $63,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum Associates | Los Angeles, CA | $63,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mind Research Institute | Santa Ana, CA | $61,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aha Attitudeharmonyachievement | Santa Barbara, CA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blind Childrens' Center | Los Angeles, CA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Csun Foundation | Northridge, CA | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education | Berkeley, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Earth Explorers | Boulder, CO | $37,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Earthroots | Trabuco Canyon, CA | $36,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship | New York, NY | $32,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Smiling Calm Hearts Open Our Learning | Pasadena, CA | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Star Education | Los Angeles, CA | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Frostig Center | Pasadena, CA | $31,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ps Science | Santa Monica, CA | $30,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edge Foundation | Seattle, WA | $24,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mar Vista Family Center | Culver City, CA | $23,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Noise Within | Pasadena, CA | $23,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Missoula Butterfly House | Missoula, MT | $21,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Assistance League of Southern Ca | Hollywood, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Civic Education | Calabasas, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children's Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emily Shane Foundation | Malibu, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fowler Museum-UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| No Limits | Culver City, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Red Hen Press | Pasadena, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara School of Squash | Santa Barbara, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tierra Del Sol Foundation | Sunlandtujunga, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services | Los Angeles, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | San Diego, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Enneagram Prison Project | Los Gatos, CA | $18,290 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Mary's College of California | Moraga, CA | $16,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Girls Academic Leadership Academy | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles | Inglewood, CA | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Parentis Foundation | Laguna Hills, CA | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dolores Mission Shool | Los Angeles, CA | $15,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| UCLA School of Law | Los Angeles, CA | $15,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| L a County Museum of Natural History | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sunsar Maya | San Francisco, CA | $12,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Actors' Gang | Culver City, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Child Creativity Lab | Santa Ana, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palisades Charter | Pacific Palisades, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Strive Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Two Bit Circustrash for Teaching | Gardena, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emmeagram Prison Project | Los Gatos, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Branches Atelier Fund | Culver City, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Council (community Partners) | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fringe Benefits Theatre Alliance | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of UC Riverside | Riverside, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wlacc Bsacamp Whitsett | Van Nuys, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
55 of 63 (87%) 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 92%, 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.
- Friends of Girls Academic Leadership Academy
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What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 111 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 51 | $544,400 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 54 | $554,400 | $6,750 |
| 2023 | 53 | $599,840 | $8,250 |
| 2024 | 52 | $586,200 | $7,500 |
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. 87% 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 $7,500. 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 Mara W Breech 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: Co Docs 2120 Wilshire Bl 400, Santa Monica, CA, 90403. 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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