· Private foundation
Dana Sila 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,442 |
| BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF | $5,000 |
| PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE | $1,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $1,000 |
| COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $1,000 |
| MERCY FOR ANIMALS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 82% of grant dollars ($363k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($81k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($81k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +48%
- BUBROOKE USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $7k · revenue +51%
- LPLIVINGDYING PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- ASASSOCIACIO SARANAone grant, 2024 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IWINSIGHT WORLD AIDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
The organization is the only international buddhist animal rights/advocacy organization in the world. we educate and advocate for vegetarian diets.
CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 67 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 BUDDHIST GLOBAL RELIEF A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGDYING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Asia Wild ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds New York Insight Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds Compassion in World Farming Inc ↗
- Who funds GRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Dharma Collective ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Project Apis M 20 Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · BESS Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dana Sila Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dana Sila Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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