· Private foundation
The Avalon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETHIOPIA SKATE | $2,500 |
| LUMINA ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FAMILY CARE NETWORK | $1,500 |
| ECHO | $1,500 |
| CAMP OCEAN PINES | $1,250 |
| STUDIOS ON THE PARK | $1,000 |
| DIVERSITY COALITION | $1,000 |
| MORRO BAY ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| ESTERO BAY KINDNESS COALITION | $500 |
| TORTOISE AND ANIMAL RESCUE | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 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 ↗
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: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Avalon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Avalon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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