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The Belay Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2023
16
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$980kArts & Culture$306kHuman Services$157kYouth Development$156kScience & Tech$32kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2023 · 16 grants

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
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 12%REAP: $11k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 22 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
+175%

Still filing today

59%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • RF
    READ FOR LIFE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $191k · revenue +22% · 65% of their budget
  • AR
    ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +186%
  • VE
    VISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $140k · revenue +22% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PORTERVILLE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • KT
    KIDS TO COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SV
    SYCAMORE VALLEY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Turlock Education Opportunity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
Tulare County Farm Bureau Educational & Scholarship Fund Trust

Agriculture education and scholarships

Education
3
The California Education Partners

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,…

Education
4
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom

To increase awareness and understanding of agriculture among california educators and students.

5
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation

The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.

Philanthropy
6
California State University Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
The Agricultural Foundation of California State University Fresno

Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.

8
Challenge Success

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.

Education
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
10
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
11
California Teaching Fellows Foundation

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…

12
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BELAY FUND — $2,143,066 · OtherBELAY FUNDREAD FOR LIFE — $191,000 · OtherREAD FOR LIFEIMAGINEU MUSEUM — $146,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TULARE COUNTY LIBRAR — $137,500 · Other+16 more — $555,000 · Other+16 moreVISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $140,000 · EducationVISALIA EDUCATIO…College of the Sequoias Foundation — $129,500 · EducationCollege of the S…CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS — $127,000 · EducationCENTRAL VALLEY S…CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION — $92,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMW…KIPP FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationKIPP FOUNDATIONTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $13,000 · EducationADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionEARN INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropySelf-Help Enterprises — $17,000 · Housing & ShelterGREENSPEED RESEARCH INC — $12,000 · Science & Tech
Other$3,172,566Education$561,500Youth Development$145,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$17,000Science & Tech$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREAD FOR LIFE — $191,000 over 7y, 65% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $145,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetVISALIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCollege of the Sequoias Foundation — $129,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY SCHOLARS — $127,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION — $92,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFRESNO PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCICON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetEARN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSelf-Help Enterprises — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENSPEED RESEARCH INC — $12,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSequoia Riverlands Trust — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget10000 DEGREES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTS VISALIA — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

The Bessemer Giving FundNJ26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • Reap Inc46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Belay Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Belay 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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