· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k7 grants · $906k
- $250k+12 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION | $1,783,000 |
| SAN LUIS OBISPO NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORP | $1,741,285 |
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $1,735,965 |
| ECHO SHELTER | $1,044,159 |
| CASA PACIFICA | $626,518 |
| 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION | $501,519 |
| MESA | $500,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER | $500,000 |
| MY FRIEND'S PLACE | $500,000 |
| SALT LIGHT WORKS | $500,000 |
| 805 STREET OUTREACH | $350,000 |
| SLO FOOD BANK | $300,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD | $225,000 |
| FOOD FOR LIFE MINISTRY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $105,462 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DDIGNITYMOVES3× · 2022–2024 · $4.7M · revenue ×11
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER4× · 2022–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +177%
- FBFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- PSPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORPgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $800k · revenue +26%
- POPATH OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2023 · $150k
- NBNew Beginningsone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
The Ford Street Project provides shelter, housing, substance abuse treatment and employment services to the homeless, addicted, and disabled in Mendocino County.
To ensure housing for all by uniting the community, forming partnerships, inspiring advocacy and providing service
At cots, our mission is to assist those experiencing homelessness to find and keep housing, increase self-sufficiency and improve well-being. we envision a community where everyone has a place to call home.
To assist persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find and retain stable and affordable housing.
Fighting poverty. lifting lives. we mobilize the resources of our community to help those among us who are in need. our dedicated professional staff and volunteers work together to provide food, access to shelter, healthcare, and a broad…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Camino Homeless Organization and the most unlike its peers is Salt and Light Works. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO NON-PROFIT HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Salt and Light Works ↗
- Who funds EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD ↗
- Who funds East San Gabriel Valley Coalition ↗
- Who funds Food For Life Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc ↗
- Who funds MY FRIEND'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds ESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Balay Ko Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.