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The Avalon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETHIOPIA SKATE | $2,500 |
| LUMINA ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ECHO | $1,500 |
| FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $1,500 |
| CAMP OCEAN PINES | $1,250 |
| MORRO BAY ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| STUDIOS ON THE PARK | $1,000 |
| DIVERSITY COALITION | $1,000 |
| ESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION | $500 |
| TORTOISE AND ANIMAL RESCUE | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FCFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +4%
- COCAMP OCEAN PINES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +161%
- PRPASO ROBLES YOUTH ARTS CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- LLUMINAone grant, 2023 · $2k
- HIHEALING IN THE MARGINS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +73%
- TTPACone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To advance the visual, literary and performing arts in san luis obispo county through programs that promote local arts planning and collaboration; the arts in educational settings; public access to the arts; and opportunities for artists…
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
CCODP aims to eliminate overdoses and other negative substance-related outcomes in the Tri-County communities and beyond by increasing awareness, reducing stigma, educating the public, improving access to community support services and…
Hijos Del Sol Arts Productions creates opportunities, inspires children and youth, and builds community in the Salinas Valley through visual and multicultural arts education, experiences, and mentorship, where young people are respected,…
Palenke Arts is a multicultural arts Organization whose mission is to educate, inspire and transform the community of Seaside through the arts.
Arts benicia's mission is to stimulate, educate and nurture cultural life in benicia primarily through the visual arts. this community based non-profit organization provides exhibitions, educational programs and classes that support…
Engage with art shows, education and programs. exhibiting artworks by san francisco bay area artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Studios On the Park Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Lucia School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 22 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 FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP OCEAN PINES INC ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES YOUTH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ECHO INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIOS ON THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA LUCIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUMINA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HEALING IN THE MARGINS INC ↗
- Who funds ATASCADERO PRINTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Avalon 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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