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THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION

THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$48k
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$161
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 117 ($75k) Expenses 83 ($83k) Net assets 99 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 179 ($114k) Expenses 95 ($95k) Net assets 101 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 130 ($83k) Expenses 114 ($114k) Net assets 99 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 190 ($121k) Expenses 99 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 171 ($109k) Expenses 67 ($67k) Net assets 87 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue -148 ($-94872) Expenses 106 ($106k) Net assets 88 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 75 ($48k) Expenses 105 ($106k) Net assets 85 ($1.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (75)Expenses (105)Net assets (85)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
17
$9k
18
$19k
19
$31k
20
$22k
21
$42k
22
$201k
23
$57k
24
133
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $36 → $35.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

0
board members
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

20%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION?
THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $161 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($161). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $161 in grants to THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $161 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FELICE FOUNDATION DBA THE LEO BUSCAGLIA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing