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Bialis Charitable Trust

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.

$280k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$18,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Bialis Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$280k60%
FY20249$277k67%
FY20236$1.5M100%
FY20229$149k67%
FY202111$275k73%
FY20207$110k71%
FY20198$232k63%
FY20187$225kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.5MReligion$188kRecreation & Sports$165kHealth$135kArts & Culture$75kInternational$75kEducation$49kHousing & Shelter$48kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
CA
UT
MD
AZ
NM
OK
MS
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports$150,0001n/a
Jazz Hands for Autism$75,00018%
Association of American Indian Physicians Inc$68,00033%
El Camino Homeless Organization$44,41641%
Congregation Bnai Brith$43,1792n/a
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc$36,000110%
Voices for Children$25,00010%
Medical Outreach of America Inc$25,0001100%
Vna Health Foundation$25,00011%
Teach for America Inc$25,00010%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Bialis Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports$150,0001n/a
Jazz Hands for Autism$75,00018%
Association of American Indian Physicians Inc$68,00033%
El Camino Homeless Organization$44,41641%
Congregation Bnai Brith$43,1792n/a
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc$36,000110%
Voices for Children$25,00010%
Medical Outreach of America Inc$25,0001100%
Vna Health Foundation$25,00011%
Teach for America Inc$25,00010%
Community Shul of Montecito and Santa Barbara$21,6001n/a
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$18,00010%
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner$15,50010%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$12,50011%
Genuine Concern for Others Inc$10,7392n/a
Unity Shoppe Inc$10,00010%
The Aurelia Foundation$10,00010%
Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades$10,0001n/a
San Francisco General Hospital Foundation$10,00010%
Goleta Valley South Little League Inc$10,00014%
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy$5,00010%
Food From the Heart Inc$5,00011%
Santa Barbara Baseball Parents Association$5,00018%
Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc$3,60010%
Lifechronicles Inc$2,50012%
Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter$2,50012%
Transition House$1,80010%
The Gregory School$1,72320%
Path$1,63320%
Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc$1,0001n/a
Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bialis Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJazz Hands for Autism: $75,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetAssociation of American Indian Physicians Inc: $68,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEl Camino Homeless Organization: $44,416 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAction for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetVoices for Children: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMedical Outreach of America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetVna Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $15,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Aurelia Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco General Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoleta Valley South Little League Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRedwood Coast Land Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood From the Heart Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Baseball Parents Association: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSave a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifechronicles Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBunnies Urgently Needing Shelter: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTransition House: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gregory School: $1,723 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPath: $1,633 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Bialis Family Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation · Mithun Family Foundation · Towbes 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.

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About Bialis Charitable Trust

How much does Bialis Charitable Trust give?
Bialis Charitable Trust reported 5 grants totaling $279,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bialis Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Religion (6%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are Bialis Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports ($150k), Jazz Hands for Autism ($75k), Association of American Indian Physicians Inc ($68k).
Does Bialis Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bialis Charitable Trust 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 Bialis Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, California Community Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
Where is Bialis Charitable Trust based?
Bialis Charitable Trust is based in CA.

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 48 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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