Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation supports education, religion, health, human services and the arts in Los Angeles, California.
FUNDING AREAS: Education, religion, health, human services, arts
IP TAKE: This has historically been a big funder of youth music programs in the Los Angeles area, although the foundation supports many different causes here, especially women-focused and Catholic-affiliated ones.
PROFILE: Established in 1975, the Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation is a family foundation that is administered by Wells Fargo Philanthropic Services, with Wells Fargo Bank as the foundation trustee. Mary Mastrovich Adams lived from 1898 to 1988 and had residences with her husband in Deadwood, South Dakota and Culver City, California. She was of Yugoslavian heritage, traveled extensively after her husband’s death and was committed to philanthropy. The foundation aims to "support charitable causes in the areas of education, religion, health, human services and the arts to organizations located in or serving citizens of Los Angeles County, California, and South Dakota.”
The Adams-Mastrovich Family Foundation prioritizes Roman Catholic institutions, but overall funds a wide variety of causes. The founder gave extensively to education and the performing arts to help young people obtain training in music. She also committed money to a Loyola Marymount University scholarship fund and to other higher education institutions for instrumental and vocal performance programs. Other interests include museums, hospitals, Catholic parishes, libraries, organizations that serve delinquent teenage boys and programs for battered women. Priority is given to groups that serve victims of domestic violence, women who are mentally ill, emergency and transitional housing and high school and college music programs.
Grants range between about $5,000 and $20,000. The foundation typically gives out around 38 grants annually, totaling over $1.5 million. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Grantmaking focuses on Los Angeles County in California and also South Dakota. Past local grantees include the Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood, the Korean American Women’s Association and Homeless Not Toothless.
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits. The grant application deadline is June 30 each year, and grantseekers must use the Wells Fargo online application system. The funder reviews application at an annual meeting in September. Direct general questions to the staff at grantadministration@wellsfargo.com or 888-235-4351.
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