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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.

$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$436kHuman Services$207kPhilanthropy$100kCrime & Legal$62kReligion$55kEducation$54kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
East Bay Community Foundation$100,000
Ability Now Bay Area$13,610
Piedmont Yoga Community$13,610
Lifelong Medical Care$13,100
Circle of Life$12,500
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Art of Yoga Project: $13k → 8%Larkin Street Youth Services: $10k → 10%The Art of Yoga Project: $13k → 8%The Art of Yoga Project: $13k → 8%The Art of Yoga Project: $13k → 8%Larkin Street Youth Services: $10k → 10%The Art of Yoga Project: $11k → 8%The Art of Yoga Project: $10k → 8%The Art of Yoga Project: $10k → 8%The Art of Yoga Project: $10k → 8%Piedmont Yoga Community: $14k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $21k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $14k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $18k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $13k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $13k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $13k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $13k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $11k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $13k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $10k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $10k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $10k → 10%Veterans Yoga Project: $10k → 10%Piedmont Yoga Community: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$855k · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$855k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
0%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VY
    VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +9%
  • PY
    Piedmont Yoga Community
    8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +51% · 43% of their budget
  • AN
    ABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • IP
    INSIGHT PRISON PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • NI
    NIROGA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yoga Behind Bars

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.

Education
2
Sea Change Yoga

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…

Human Services
3
Burlington Yoga Equity Project
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4
Yoga East Inc

Yoga education.

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5
Yoga Research Foundation Inc
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6
Yoga Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
7
Yoga Buzz

To teach and train individuals on the benefits of yoga

Recreation & Sports
8
Yoga Sangeeta

Yoga Sangeeta promotes performing arts education by providing yoga classes and concerts to the public.

Health
9
Street Yoga

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…

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10
Yoga Alliance Registry

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…

Education
11
Prison Yoga Santa Barbara

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…

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12
Tri Yoga International

The training, certification and continuing education of yoga teachers

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art of Yoga Project; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC: $95,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INCPiedmont Yoga Community: $94,210 · Human ServicesPiedmont Yoga CommunityTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $91,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECTLarkin Street Youth Services: $20,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth ServicesABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC: $93,220 · HealthABILITY NOW BAY AREA INCPD Active: $91,000 · HealthPD ActiveLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE: $86,600 · HealthLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE+1 more: $988 · HealthCircle of Life: $55,000 · OtherCircle of LifeBambini Yoga Project: $45,000 · OtherBambini Yoga ProjectPrison Yoga Project Inc: $25,000 · OtherPrison Yoga Project I…Shih-Yu-Lang Central YMCA: $20,000 · OtherShih-Yu-Lang Central …HANNA BOYS CENTER: $15,000 · OtherHANNA BOYS CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant reci…INSIGHT PRISON PROJECT: $12,500 · OtherINSIGHT PRISON PROJEC…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY CO…GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $53,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC: $49,650 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNIROGA INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$300,710Health$271,808Other$190,000Philanthropy$100,000Education$53,500Arts & Culture$50,150Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC: $95,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetPiedmont Yoga Community: $94,210 over 8y, 43% of budgetABILITY NOW BAY AREA INC: $93,220 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $91,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPD Active: $91,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE: $86,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION: $53,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC: $49,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBambini Yoga Project: $45,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPrison Yoga Project Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEMONADE - A YOGA PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetLa Pea Cultural Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PD Active ↗
  • 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 SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Yoga Dana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yoga Dana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Yoga Dana Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Yoga Dana 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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