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Linda Vista 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.

$161k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$53,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
9
Total assets, FY2023
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Linda Vista Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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
FY202314$161k57%
FY202217$236k76%
FY202110$178kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

International$246kCommunity Improvement$115kEducation$112kHealth$54kHuman Services$37kEnvironment$15kRecreation & Sports$15kCivil Rights$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
OH
PA
CA
CO
DE
SC
TX
FL

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
Amigos de Santa Cruz Foundation$57,50019%
Cooperative for Education$35,00021%
Maia$33,50031%
Urban Mosaic Inc$30,00015%
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance$30,00023%
Faith in Practice$30,00020%
Potters House$25,0001n/a
Friends of Suenos$23,70028%
El Porvenir$15,00020%
Healing Waters International Inc$15,00011%
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All grantees of Linda Vista Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Amigos de Santa Cruz Foundation$57,50019%
Cooperative for Education$35,00021%
Maia$33,50031%
Urban Mosaic Inc$30,00015%
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance$30,00023%
Faith in Practice$30,00020%
Potters House$25,0001n/a
Friends of Suenos$23,70028%
El Porvenir$15,00020%
Healing Waters International Inc$15,00011%
Common Hope$15,00010%
Integrity International$15,00013%
Education Plus Nicaragua Inc$10,08412%
Creamos Norte$5,00011%
People Helping People$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($233k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Linda Vista Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmigos de Santa Cruz Foundation: $57,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCooperative for Education: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMaia: $33,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUrban Mosaic Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetXela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFaith in Practice: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Suenos: $23,700 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetEl Porvenir: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHealing Waters International Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommon Hope: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIntegrity International: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEducation Plus Nicaragua Inc: $10,084 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCreamos Norte: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 13.

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.

The Ward Foundation IncLA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ward Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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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About Linda Vista Foundation

How much does Linda Vista Foundation give?
Linda Vista Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $161,030 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Linda Vista Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (41%), Community Improvement (19%), Education (19%).
Who are Linda Vista Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Amigos de Santa Cruz Foundation ($58k), Cooperative for Education ($35k), Maia ($34k).
Does Linda Vista Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Linda Vista 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 Linda Vista Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ward Foundation Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
Where is Linda Vista Foundation based?
Linda Vista 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 32 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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