California · Private foundation
David and Elita Balfour Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,725
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $409k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations David and Elita Balfour Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $16k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $19k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $25k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Madrinas | $21,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Cancer Support Community Greater San Gabriel Valley | $12,480 | 4 | 0% |
| Holy Family Church | $4,575 | 5 | n/a |
| Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus | $3,650 | 4 | n/a |
| Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Inc | $3,100 | 4 | 0% |
| The Foundation at Hearst Castle | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Song for Charlie Inc | $1,941 | 3 | 0% |
| Pasadena Garden Club Inc | $1,930 | 3 | 3% |
| Christ Child Society of Pasadena Inc | $1,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Santa Teresita Inc | $1,050 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Elita Balfour Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation · Adams Fund · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Fishbein Family Foundation Inc · Ann Peppers Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare David and Elita Balfour Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to David and Elita Balfour Foundation?
Find your warmest path to David and Elita Balfour 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 David and Elita Balfour Foundation
- How much does David and Elita Balfour Foundation give?
- David and Elita Balfour Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $15,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does David and Elita Balfour Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Human Services (10%), Education (9%).
- Who are David and Elita Balfour Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Las Madrinas ($22k), Cancer Support Community Greater San Gabriel Valley ($12k), Holy Family Church ($5k).
- Does David and Elita Balfour Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David and Elita Balfour Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as David and Elita Balfour Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is David and Elita Balfour Foundation based?
- David and Elita Balfour Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on David and Elita Balfour’s filings →