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Bodhisattva 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC | $3,500 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,750 |
| PARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION | $2,500 |
| FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES | $1,500 |
| LOTUSLAND | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FELLOWS OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $750 |
| CARE 4 PAWS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $360 |
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 (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2019–2023 · $6k · revenue ×11
LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS2× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +87%- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- SVSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- EIESALEN INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +144%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esalen Institute and the most unlike its peers is Lotus Land Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 61 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 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOTUS LAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds ESALEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEDIATRIC VISION ↗
- Who funds THE EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Flag Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds SAMARPAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES 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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Manitou Fund · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 Bodhisattva 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.
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