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The Paix Alia Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Arts & Culture$675kEnvironment$159kEducation$96kFood & Nutrition$40kInternational$40kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$10kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAIX ALIA ASSOCIATION$275,000
SANTA CRUZ MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

Your US giving — 28% of grant dollars ($316k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 72% that went abroad ($799k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SANTA CRUZ MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%SANTA BARBARA YMCA: $5k → 14%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $35k → 12%FOODBANK INC: $20k → 14%WORLD VISION: $5k → 9%SANTA CRUZ MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%FOOTHILL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%SANTA CRUZ MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%FOOTHILL PTA: $30k → 14%SANTA CRUZ COUNTY MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%EL CAMINO ELEMENTARY PTA: $15k → 14%LA PATERA PTA: $15k → 14%BRANDON SCHOOL PTA: $15k → 14%DPHS BEACH VOLLEYBALL: $10k → 14%DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $20k → 14%SMHS ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 14%DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%TRANSITION HOUSE: $5k → 14%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.

Beyond the US — 72% of all-years giving ($799k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Tunisia$799k · 7 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$829k · 3 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$829k
$266k

Still filing today

0%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • PA
    PAIX ALIA ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $640k
  • EI
    ENDA INTER-ARABE EIA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $159k
  • SC
    SANTA CRUZ MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • FP
    FOOTHILL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • EW
    ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k

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
Foundation for Santa Barbara High School

Mission:the foundation for sbhs partners with sbhs leadership to evaluate and fund emergent needs that are outside the scope of the school budget.vision: the foundation for sbhs aims to create the premier public high school where every…

Education
2
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.

Education
4
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
5
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

6
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
7
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

10
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
11
Food Bank for Monterey County

To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.

Unclassified
12
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mammoth Community Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PAIX ALIA ASSOCIATION — $640,000 · OtherPAIX ALIA ASSOCIATIONENDA INTER-ARABE EIA — $158,850 · OtherENDA INTER-ARABE EIAFOOTHILL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · OtherFOOTHILL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION+11 more — $155,000 · Other+11 moreENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $35,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE FOODBANK INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionMAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $500 · PhilanthropySAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationTRANSITION HOUSE — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,013,850International$40,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Philanthropy$10,500Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOODBANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC
  • Who funds THE FOODBANK INC
  • Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
  • Who funds MAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE
  • Who funds DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Paix Alia 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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