Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Santa Monica, California

159
foundations with a Santa Monica address
$199.8M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
25
say they accept unsolicited
$9,850
median grant

Grantlas lists 159 foundations that gave a Santa Monica, California address on their tax filing — 151 private foundations and 8 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $199.8 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 25 of them (16%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Santa Monica foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 159 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Santa Monica, California
The Michael and Lori Milken Family$5,000$26.1M$1,000–$20MFY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Universal Music All Together Now$20,000$3.3M$825–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
George Hoag Family Foundation$2.4M$2.4M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal$25,000$870,000$5,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dora Freedman Levit Fund for People$50,000$750,000$5,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William H Hannon Foundation$753,925$706,700$706,700–$801,150FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Capstone Foundation$20,000$675,919$250–$219,769FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mara W Breech Foundation$7,500$581,700$3,300–$33,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Zolla Family Foundation$18,000$526,500$5,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Martin Architecture and Design$36,032$330,000$10,000–$252,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities$1,000$200,200$500–$7,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lawrence Foundation$181,250$172,500$172,500–$190,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Noah Rose Foundation$10,000$167,588$1,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Dillon Henry Foundation$1,000$141,346$500–$117,846FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Yamani Family Foundation$5,000$102,950$5,000–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
European Languages and Movies in America$5,000$95,000$500–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of$2,252$75,861$200–$18,421FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Tebo Family Foundation$8,429$50,346$5,000–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Barbara Korsch Ward Foundation$50,000$50,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Steve and Kristin Chapin Family$2,500$48,750$150–$10,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jestin Freeman Foundation$3,000$39,000One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gnarwhal Community Foundation$13,763$37,890$2,170–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mary Grant Price Foundation$16,500$33,000$13,000–$20,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles G and Jessie R Cale Foundation$20,000$15,000$15,000–$52,700FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Willsey Foundation$1,595$1,200$1,200–$1,989FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.