The Arzak Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 87-0760799. Reported 236 grants totalling $3,469,932 to 90 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Arzak Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations The Arzak Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 12 grants totalling $83,000 to them. That is 3% of the $2,957,027 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation Council of Greater La | federated giving programme | California | $64,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc | federated giving programme | Massachusetts | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | Its form does not ask |
| Jewish Community Federation of San | federated giving programme | California | $8,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc | grantmaking organization | California | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $861,234.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Huntington Library | San Marino, CA | $2,227,815 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Los Angeles Opera | Los Angeles, CA | $325,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Historical Society | Boston, MA | $111,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $64,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Temple Israel of Hollywood | Los Angeles, CA | $62,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Library of Congress | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation | Nantucket, MA | $48,075 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | Nantucket, MA | $39,490 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion | New York, NY | $38,600 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boston Lyric Opera | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Temple Akiba | Culver City, CA | $25,125 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Masterpiece Trust | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Librarian of Congress | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Jewish World Service | New York, NY | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| MIT | Cambridge, MA | $19,862 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nantucket Historical Association | Nantucket, MA | $17,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Harvard-Westlake School | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Public Media Group of Southern California | Burbank, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nantucket Community Sailing | Nantucket, MA | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ieee | Piscataway, NJ | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Consumer Technology Association Foundation | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Good Plus Foundation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indian Law Resource Center | Helena, MT | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family and Children's Services | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Skating Club of Boston | Norwood, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| UCLA Health Sciences | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mazon | Los Angeles, CA | $9,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| New Israel Fund | New York, NY | $8,900 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Shirat Hayam Congregation | Nantucket, MA | $8,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund | San Francisco, CA | $8,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $8,100 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | Oakland, CA | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| ACLU Foundation | Boston, MA | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ieee Foundation | Piscataway, NJ | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Temple Israel of Boston | Boston, MA | $3,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nantucket Atheneum | Nantucket, MA | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston Athenaeum | Boston, MA | $2,950 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sky's the Limit Fund | Milpitas, CA | $2,900 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Fund for Women | San Francisco, CA | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| International Medical Corps | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee | New York, NY | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kenyon College | Gambier, OH | $2,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary | Boston, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Southern Poverty Law Ct | Montgomery, AL | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harvard Law School | Cambridge, MA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harwich Chamber of Commerce Charitable Fundation | Harwich Port, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nantucket Land Council | Nantucket, MA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stand With US | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Temple Early Childhood Center | Los Angeles, CA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Jewish Community Center | Granada Hills, CA | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Heart Association | Dallas, TX | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Golden Gate National Park Cons | San Francisco, CA | $1,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hand in Hand USA | Oak Brook, IL | $1,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hias | Silver Spring, MD | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 14-40 Connection | Westborough, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Broadstage | Santa Monica, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund | Berkeley, CA | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Facing History and Ourselves | Brookline, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Filmakers Collaborate | Melrose, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jewish Broadcasting Services | Stamford, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| MIT Alumni Fund | Cambridge, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| MIT Resource Development | Cambridge, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Manuscript Society | Overland Park, KS | $915 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kalw | San Francisco, CA | $750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kcsm Jazz | San Mateo, CA | $750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Kqed | San Francisco, CA | $750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Naral Pro-Choice America | Washington, DC | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Air Safety Foundation | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| American Jewish University | Los Angeles, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beth Morrison Projects | Brooklyn, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Shalom Bayit | Banning, CA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hirshberg Fdn for Pancreatic Cancer Research | Los Angeles, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nantucket Yacht Club Foundation Inc | Nantucket, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| One Voice | Santa Monica, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Undocufund | Graton, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Nantucket Interfaith Council | Nantucket, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program | Berkeley, CA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Missey | Oakland, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sustainable Nantucket | Nantucket, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket | Nantucket, MA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
53 of 90 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 62%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
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.
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
EDUCATION AND SOCIAL AWARENESS - UCLA Health Sciences
HEALTH SCIENCES AND EDUCATIONAL - Planned Parenthood
EDUCATINAL AND SOCIAL WELFARE - Nantucket Atheneum
CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - Sky's the Limit Fund
EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES - Golden Gate National Park Cons
MAINTAINING NATIONAL PARK
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 139 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 71 | $677,773 | $1,000 |
| 2021 | 49 | $806,425 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 49 | $751,450 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $1,022,634 | $1,500 |
| 2024 | 32 | $211,650 | $2,150 |
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
81% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Arzak Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: One W Century Drive Suite 7A, Los Angeles, CA, 90067. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 87-0760799 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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