· Private foundation
Balsells Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $191k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $841,866 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $795,518 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $122,930 |
| IRVINE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $68,250 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY | $700 |
| CASAL DELS CATALANS DE CALIFORNIA | $692 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Balsells Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $2.4M · revenue +79%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $527k · revenue +51%
- MVMISSION VIEJO PATEADORES INC DBA PATEADORES2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- PVPALOS VERDES SUNSET ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $63k
- FRFOOTHILL RANCH SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2017 · $13k · 58% of their budget
- SHSET HIGH SCHOOL SAN DIEGOone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
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.
Our mission is to be the leader in the south bay by offering boys and girls ages 8 to 18 the opportunity to develop both socially and physically through the sport of soccer. to achieve this our coaches are licensed through us youth…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Education of Athletes
The league seeks to build strong bodies, minds, characters, and communities through its youth development-focused cycling programs.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRVINE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION VIEJO PATEADORES INC DBA PATEADORES ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL RANCH SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds MINDSET CHARTER SCHOOLS INC DBA SCHOOL FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Foundation of La Jolla High School Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Balsells Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Balsells Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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