Idaho · Private foundation
The Belay Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2023
- 16
- Grants FY2023
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,143,066
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Belay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 16 | $2.6M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $350k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $310k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $250k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $201k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $150k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read for Life | $191,000 | 7 | 65% |
| Adventure Risk Challenge | $145,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Visalia Education Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 30% |
| College of the Sequoias Foundation | $129,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Central Valley Scholars | $127,000 | 5 | 30% |
| California Farmworker Foundation | $92,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Fresno Pacific University | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kipp Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Sage School Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Earn Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Read for Life | $191,000 | 7 | 65% |
| Adventure Risk Challenge | $145,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Visalia Education Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 30% |
| College of the Sequoias Foundation | $129,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Central Valley Scholars | $127,000 | 5 | 30% |
| California Farmworker Foundation | $92,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Fresno Pacific University | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kipp Foundation | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Sage School Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Earn Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Scicon Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Foodlink for Tulare County Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Self-Help Enterprises | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenspeed Research Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Reap Inc | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sequoia Riverlands Trust | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts Visalia | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| 10000 Degrees | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Belay Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
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About The Belay Foundation
- How much does The Belay Foundation give?
- The Belay Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,587,066 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Belay Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (25%), Arts & Culture (8%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are The Belay Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Read for Life ($191k), Adventure Risk Challenge ($145k), Visalia Education Foundation ($140k).
- Does The Belay Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Belay Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Belay Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bessemer Giving Fund, The California Endowment, Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management.
- Where is The Belay Foundation based?
- The Belay Foundation is based in ID.
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