Funding search · EIN 841624183 · San Francisco, CA

Paul L Wattis Foundation

Name: Paul L Wattis Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

39
grants reported: $1.5M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $25,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 39 reported grants, largest first.

$112,500
California College of the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Huang Matching Gift Challenge for unrestricted operating support
$100,000
San Francisco Jazz Organization · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support the SFJAZZ Immersive Media Project
$100,000
San Francisco Jazz Organization · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support the SFJAZZ Immersive Media Project
$100,000
San Francisco Jazz Organization · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Support the SFJAZZ Immersive Media Project
$89,250
University of California Regents · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Support the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive purchase of Masako Miki, Ichiren-bozu, 2018
$60,000
Minnesota Street Project Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support Fall Exhibition of "Venus Blues"
$60,000
Uc Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Support the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Annual Fund
$50,000
Sweetwater Music Hall · Mill Valley, CA · 2025
General support
$50,000
The Dry Dock Corporation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Support for general expenses
$50,000
Lacma - Museum Associates · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Support Ed Ruscha/Now Then: A Retrospective
$50,000
Sweetwater Music Hall · Mill Valley, CA · 2024
General support
$50,000
The Grabhorn Institute & Arion Press · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Capital campaign to help move the Arion Press historic printing facility to Fort Mason
$50,000
Lacma - Museum Associates · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Support Ed Ruscha/Now Then: A Retrospective
$50,000
Sweetwater Music Hall · Mill Valley, CA · 2023
General support
$50,000
Grabhorn Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Support organization's general operations
$50,000
Sweetwater Music Hall · Mill Valley, CA · 2022
General Support
$31,000
The Salvation Army - Golden State Division · San Francisco, CA · 2025
To support the Joseph McFee Center
$30,000
American Near East Refugee Aid · Washington, DC · 2024
Support the distribution of meals to people affected by the war in Gaza
$25,000
San Francisco Jazz Organization · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support the SFJAZZ Gala 2024
$25,000
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support Kehinde Wiley: An Archeology of Silence
$25,000
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support the de Young 2023 Open Exhibition
$25,000
Hazel Hawkins Hospital Foundation · Hollister, CA · 2023
To honor Willene M. Wattis
$25,000
Pacific Legal Foundation · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Support for the Annual Fund
$25,000
Cal Poly Foundation · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2022
Support College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Dean's Power of Doing Fund
$25,000
Cal Poly Foundation · San Luis Obispo, CA · 2022
Support the Swanton Sustainability Fund of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.
$25,000
Hispanics in Philanthropy · Oakland, CA · 2022
Support the "Innovando la Tradicion/Colectivo 1050" program
$22,400
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2025
For acquisition of Hiba Kalache's Ecology of Violence II (2023)
$20,000
Transit Books · Berkeley, CA · 2025
To support the organization's project to develop a book from initial concept through final publication
$20,000
Trisha Brown Dance Company · New York, NY · 2025
To support the upcoming production in celebration of the Robert Rauschenberg Centennial
$10,000
Hazel Hawkins Hospital Foundation · Hollister, CA · 2025
General support
$10,000
Pacific Legal Foundation · Sacramento, CA · 2025
For the foundation's Annual Fund
$10,000
San Benito County Heritage Foundation · Tres Pinos, CA · 2025
To support the Water Project Committee with funding of a second well and water supply in the Southwest region of Bolado Park
$10,000
The Swedenborgian Church · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Support the provision of a space available for community purposes
$5,000
Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
Support of art conservation
$5,000
Diocese of Monterey · Tres Pinos, CA · 2024
Support the Parish Painting Project
$5,000
Saint John'S Presbyterian Church · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support the provision of a space available for community purposes
$5,000
The Swedenborgian Church · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support the provision of a space available for community purposes
$2,500
Little Village Foundation · Solvang, CA · 2025
For the foundation's Annual Fund
$500
Aspen Historical Society · Aspen, CO · 2024
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.