How much does Ardor Foundation give?

Ardor Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $30,237 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Ardor Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are International (28%), Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (16%).

Who are Ardor Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($24k), Chinese Christian Herald Crusades Inc ($14k), Amitabha Buddhist Society of USA ($13k).

Does Ardor Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ardor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is Ardor Foundation based?

Ardor Foundation is based in CA.

Ardor Foundation

Ardor Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ardor Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$54kEducation$33kFood & Nutrition$30kReligion$18kHealth$17kHuman Services$14kEnvironment$7kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

02FY2026 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250

Median grant

States reached

$748k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
World Vision	$4,800
Second Harvest Food Bank	$4,800
UC Santa Barbara Foundation	$3,500
UC San Diego Foundation	$2,200
UC Berkeley Foundation	$2,200
Genesis Media Foundation	$1,700
Buddhist Tsu Chi Foundation	$1,700
Chinese Christian Herald Crusades	$1,447
American Red Cross	$1,000
Media Research Center	$1,000
Turning Point USA	$500
National Wildlife Federation	$450
KQED	$400
The Nature Conservancy	$400
Special Olympics Northern California	$300

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$158k · 32 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$158k

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

-20%

Still filing today

75%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
10× · 2017–2026 · $24k · revenue +224%
US
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
10× · 2017–2026 · $10k · revenue +78%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
10× · 2017–2026 · $5k · revenue +46%

Funded once

AB
AMERICAN BEIYINU ALUMNAE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue -15%
MB
MAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $600 · revenue -20%
MB
MAGIC BRIDGE THEATRE COMPANY
one grant, 2021 · $300

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

Rare

Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.

Environment

Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Amazon Conservation Team

The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.

Science & Tech

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tiger Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

26/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$89,230International$58,793Education$34,300Human Services$23,679Health$9,000Religion$4,550Environment$3,990

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ardor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ardor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home