Peter E Haas JR Family Fund
Novato, CA · EIN 14-1962681. Reported 133 grants totalling $34.3M to 73 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Peter E Haas JR Family Fund, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T11).
- How spread out its giving is. 73 distinct organizations, with 20% 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. 65% 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 $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $250,000; the smallest was $16,000 and the largest $3,477,350. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marin Community Foundation | Novato, CA | $6,788,718 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Petaluma River Park Foundation Inc | Petaluma, CA | $4,133,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,259,225 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Novato Unified School District | Novato, CA | $1,987,926 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Protect Democracy Project | Washington, DC | $1,600,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| State Voices | Washington, DC | $1,500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 10000 Degrees | San Rafael, CA | $900,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa | Santa Rosa, CA | $800,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Youth Leadership Institute | San Francisco, CA | $740,133 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Arizona Center for Empowerment | Phoenix, AZ | $700,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sd Foundation | Washington, DC | $700,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid of Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $550,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Civic Nation | Washington, DC | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA | $425,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Marin Community Services | Novato, CA | $420,571 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Defending Democracy Together Institute | Washington, DC | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Progeorgia State Table Inc | Atlanta, GA | $350,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $325,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Election Innovation and Research Inc | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Good Nation Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Georgia Project Incorporated | Atlanta, GA | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| America Votes Education Fund | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Becoming Independent | Santa Rosa, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin | Santa Rosa, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ceres Community Project | Santa Rosa, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Arizona | Phoenix, AZ | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoma County Public Library Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Voter Participation Center | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Voter Registration Project | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| All Voting Is Local | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Make the Road States Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scopa Has a Dream Inc | Healdsburg, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Secure Families Collaborative | Santa Rosa, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College District | Santa Rosa, CA | $155,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Asian Community Development Council | Las Vegas, NV | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Canal Alliance | San Rafael, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Conservation Corps North Bay Inc | Novato, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| People for the American Way Foundation | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern California Grantmakers | San Francisco, CA | $116,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County | Healdsburg, CA | $104,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Bay Jobs With Justice | Santa Rosa, CA | $102,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blueprint North Carolina | Durham, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Technology and Civic Life | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Immigration Institute of the Bay Area | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Latino Service Providers | Santa Rosa, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make It Home | San Rafael, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sonoma County Community Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Santa Rosa, CA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Campaign Legal Center Inc | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Raizes Collective | Santa Rosa, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Voteamerica Inc | Sacramento, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Aim High for High School | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Canal Alliance | San Rafael, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marin Community Clinic | Novato, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Association of California | Berkeley, CA | $39,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marin County Office of Education | San Rafael, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Botanical Bus | Rohnert Park, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Huukuiko Inc | Brisbane, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lime Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Petaluma Blacks for Community Development | Petaluma, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoma Family Meal | Petaluma, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urban Habitat Program | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bay Area Furniture Bank | Fremont, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Keep Homewood Public | Tahoma, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 73 (47%) 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 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.
- Petaluma River Park Foundation Inc
SUPPORT THE PURCHASE OF 38 ACRES - Marin Community Foundation
PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT - Stanford University Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univers
SUPPORT THE CANCER CENTER MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA PROGRAM - Novato Unified School District
SUPPORT FOR VARIOUS PROGRAMS - Arizona Center for Empowerment
SUPPORT INTEGRATED VOTER ENGAGEMENT WORK - State Voices
PROVIDE OPERATING SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 65 of 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 29 | $4,439,158 | $90,000 |
| 2021 | 17 | $7,245,515 | $150,000 |
| 2022 | 32 | $6,622,853 | $137,500 |
| 2023 | 55 | $16.0M | $150,000 |
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
70% 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 $100,000 -- 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 Peter E Haas JR Family Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 55 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: 5 Hamilton Landing 200, Novato, CA, 94949.
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