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Bialis Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.2M
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,399,491
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,401,169
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Bialis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalEducationAnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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
FY20234$4.2M75%
FY20229$161k78%
FY202110$299kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Philanthropy$5.0MHealth$329kEducation$48kReligion$41kInternational$36kAnimals$11kArts & Culture$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$40,00020%
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc$36,000110%
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%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$12,50011%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10,00010%
Animal Shelter Assistance Program$10,00011%
Aaple Academy Foundation$10,00012%
The Aurelia Foundation$5,00010%
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All grantees of Bialis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$40,00020%
Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc$36,000110%
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%
Santa Barbara Education Foundation$12,50011%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10,00010%
Animal Shelter Assistance Program$10,00011%
Aaple Academy Foundation$10,00012%
The Aurelia Foundation$5,00010%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History$1,00010%
Love Heels Canine Partners$1,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bialis Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAction for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 10% 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 budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAaple Academy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Aurelia Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 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 10.

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.

Bialis Charitable TrustCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bialis Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Bialis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bialis Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bialis Family Foundation

How much does Bialis Family Foundation give?
Bialis Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $4,218,571 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Bialis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (91%), Health (6%), Education (1%).
Who are Bialis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($40k), Action for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc ($36k), Teach for America Inc ($25k).
Does Bialis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bialis Family 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 Bialis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bialis Charitable Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Bialis Family Foundation based?
Bialis Family Foundation 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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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