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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$20MFood & Nutrition$7.5MHuman Services$2.7MReligion$1.8MCommunity Improvement$100kPhilanthropy$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $906k
  • $250k+12 grants · $10M
$500,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MY FRIEND'S PLACE$500,000
SALT LIGHT WORKS$500,000
GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $627k → 10%NEW BEGINNINGS: $125k → 13%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $582k → 12%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $220k → 12%CENTER OF HOLLYWOOD: $500k → 14%EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $128k → 12%THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $100k → 14%5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $502k → 12%5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $169k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 17 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$28M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • D
    DIGNITYMOVES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.7M · revenue ×11
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +177%
  • SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +5% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • PS
    PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $800k · revenue +26%
  • PO
    PATH OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • NB
    New Beginnings
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +1%
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.

1
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
2
Union Station Homeless Services

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.

Human Services
3
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
4
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
5
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

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…

Human Services
6
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
7
Victory Mission

To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training

Human Services
8
The Ford Street Project

The Ford Street Project provides shelter, housing, substance abuse treatment and employment services to the homeless, addicted, and disabled in Mendocino County.

Health
9
People First of Santa Cruz County

To ensure housing for all by uniting the community, forming partnerships, inspiring advocacy and providing service

Housing & Shelter
10
Committee On the Shelterless

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.

—
11
Sacramento Self-Help Housing Inc

To assist persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find and retain stable and affordable housing.

—
12
Samaritan House

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Camino Homeless Organization; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIGNITYMOVES: $4,733,639 · Housing & ShelterDIGNITYMOVESGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $2,613,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTERSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $2,333,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSIONTRANSITION HOUSE: $2,102,372 · Housing & ShelterTRANSITION HOUSESalt and Light Works: $1,500,000 · Housing & ShelterSalt and Light WorksPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $800,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP+1 more: $337,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN LUIS OBISPO NON-PROFIT HOUSING: $1,741,285 · OtherSAN LUIS OBISPO NON-PROFIT…MY FRIEND'S PLACE: $1,500,000 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PLACEECHO SHELTER: $1,080,677 · OtherECHO SHELTERSALT LIGHT: $880,000 · OtherSALT LIGHTFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD: $761,966 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH …MESA: $500,000 · OtherMESA805 STREET OUTREACH: $350,000 · Other+7 more: $820,121 · Other+7 moreFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,754,410 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara …FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $1,525,947 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN…+2 more: $255,000 · Food & NutritionEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $929,500 · Human ServicesEL CAMINO …5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC: $770,868 · Human Services5CITIES HO…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $626,518 · Human ServicesCasa Pacif…THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $600,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER…New Beginnings: $125,000 · Human ServicesESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION: $88,200 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$14,419,011Other$7,634,049Food & Nutrition$7,535,357Human Services$3,051,886Philanthropy$88,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,754,410 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $4,733,639 over 3y, 22% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $2,613,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $2,333,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $2,102,372 over 2y, 27% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $1,525,947 over 4y, 11% of budgetSalt and Light Works: $1,500,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION: $929,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $800,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC: $770,868 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $626,518 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $600,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetEast San Gabriel Valley Coalition: $337,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetFood For Life Ministry Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetNew Beginnings: $125,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMY FRIEND'S PLACE: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCommunity Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION: $88,200 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Dignity HealthThe Community Foundat…Women's Fund of Santa…California Community …Santa Barbara Foundat…Wells Fargo FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Dignity HealthAZ21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Balay Ko Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Balay Ko Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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