California · Private foundation
Balay Ko Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,783,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $129M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Balay Ko Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $11M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $7.6M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $6.7M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $7.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $5,754,410 | 4 | 7% |
| Dignitymoves | $4,733,639 | 3 | 22% |
| Good Samaritan Shelter | $2,613,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $2,333,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Transition House | $2,102,372 | 2 | 27% |
| San Luis Obispo Non-Profit Housing | $1,741,285 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County | $1,525,947 | 4 | 11% |
| Salt and Light Works | $1,500,000 | 2 | 39% |
| El Camino Homeless Organization | $929,500 | 3 | 20% |
| People's Self Help Housing Corp | $800,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $5,754,410 | 4 | 7% |
| Dignitymoves | $4,733,639 | 3 | 22% |
| Good Samaritan Shelter | $2,613,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $2,333,000 | 4 | 40% |
| Transition House | $2,102,372 | 2 | 27% |
| San Luis Obispo Non-Profit Housing | $1,741,285 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County | $1,525,947 | 4 | 11% |
| Salt and Light Works | $1,500,000 | 2 | 39% |
| El Camino Homeless Organization | $929,500 | 3 | 20% |
| People's Self Help Housing Corp | $800,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 5cities Homeless Coalition Inc | $770,868 | 3 | 9% |
| Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families | $626,518 | 1 | 2% |
| The Center in Hollywood | $600,000 | 2 | 9% |
| 805 Street Outreach | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East San Gabriel Valley Coalition | $337,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Food For Life Ministry Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 39% |
| New Beginnings | $125,000 | 1 | 3% |
| My Friend's Place | $100,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Estero Bay Kindness Coalition | $88,200 | 1 | 12% |
| Food Finders Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Balay Ko Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dignity Health · The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Balay Ko Foundation
- How much does Balay Ko Foundation give?
- Balay Ko Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $10,988,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Balay Ko Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (61%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Balay Ko Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($5.8M), Dignitymoves ($4.7M), Good Samaritan Shelter ($2.6M).
- Does Balay Ko Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Balay Ko 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Balay Ko Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dignity Health, The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, Women's Fund of Santa Barbara.
- Where is Balay Ko Foundation based?
- Balay Ko Foundation is based in CA.
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