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Yoga Dana Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| East Bay Community Foundation | $100,000 |
| Piedmont Yoga Community | $13,610 |
| Ability Now Bay Area | $13,610 |
| Lifelong Medical Care | $13,100 |
| Prison Yoga Project | $12,500 |
| The Art of Yoga Project | $12,500 |
| PD Active | $12,500 |
| Veterans Yoga Project | $12,500 |
| Community Works West | $12,500 |
| Circle of Life | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VYVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +9%
- PYPiedmont Yoga Community8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +51% · 43% of their budget
- ANABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IPINSIGHT PRISON PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
- NINIROGA INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.
Yoga Behind Bars shares yoga and meditation with incarcerated youth and adults; offers trauma-informed yoga trainings; and provides support to Yoga Behind Bars trained incarcerated yoga teachers.
Sea Change Yoga partners with other social service organizations and brings the therapeutic practices of trauma informed yoga and meditation to underserved populations including people in recovery the incarcerated homeless and veterans. We…
Yoga education.
We advocate for yoga, in its wholeness, and for all human beings in theirs. Yoga Alliance is a nonprofit association of yoga professionals, practitioners, and advocates that believe if more people practice yoga the better the world will…
To teach and train individuals on the benefits of yoga
Yoga Sangeeta promotes performing arts education by providing yoga classes and concerts to the public.
Street yoga builds capacity in youth through yoga and mindfulness to overcome suffering and cope with trauma. We accomlish this in two ways: 1 Offering trauma -informed yoga and mindfulness classes at organizations in the Seatte area. that…
We advocate for yoga, in its wholeness, and for all human beings in theirs. Yoga Alliance Foundation works to foster an expansive, accessible, and inclusive yoga community by leveraging yoga for social impact. Through activated collective…
The mission of prison yoga santa barbara (pysb) is to offer incarcerated adults and adjudicated youth yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices as an effective, evidence-based rehabilitative therapy to support them in reducing the impact…
The training, certification and continuing education of yoga teachers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art of Yoga Project and the most unlike its peers is Pd Active. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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.
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 EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Yoga Community ↗
- Who funds ABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PD Active ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Bambini Yoga Project ↗
- Who funds Prison Yoga Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NIROGA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEMONADE - A YOGA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Accessible Yoga Association ↗
- Who funds La Pea Cultural Center Inc ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Yoga Dana 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.
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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