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The Belay Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELAY FUND | $2,143,066 |
| ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE | $55,000 |
| VISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| COS FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| PARENTING NETWORK FAMILY RESOURCE C | $45,000 |
| READ FOR LIFE | $40,000 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS | $30,000 |
| FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CSET | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TULARE COUNTY LIBRAR | $28,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| IMAGINEU MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCICON | $20,000 |
| FOODLINK FOR TULARE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SEQUOIA RIVERLANDS TRUST | $7,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- RFREAD FOR LIFE7× · 2017–2023 · $191k · revenue +22% · 65% of their budget
- ARADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE5× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +186%
- VEVISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $140k · revenue +22% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- PFPORTERVILLE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $30k
- KTKIDS TO COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SVSYCAMORE VALLEY ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
Agriculture education and scholarships
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
To increase awareness and understanding of agriculture among california educators and students.
The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.
Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Organized exclusively for educational purposes. The corporation is a public benefit corporation which identifies and supports future educators through a variety of academic, enrichment and school placement experiences to enhance…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Greenspeed Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 READ FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds VISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of the Sequoias Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Foodlink for Tulare County Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCICON INC ↗
- Who funds EARN INC ↗
- Who funds Self-Help Enterprises ↗
- Who funds GREENSPEED RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds REAP INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sequoia Riverlands Trust ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds ARTS VISALIA ↗
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 Bessemer Giving Fund · The California Endowment · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Belay 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.
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
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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