Grants awarded
Who does Dana Sila Foundation fund?
Dana Sila Foundation has awarded $418,000 across 131 grants to 69 grantees between 2020 and 2025. Its giving concentrates in religion. Its typical grant is $1,500, with most between $1,000 and $5,000.
Total awarded
$418K
Typical grant
$2K
Grantees
69
Grants
131
Years
2020–2025
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Follow |
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| G Gaia House Meditation Center | $50K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
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$35K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| P Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism INC | $35K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| I Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center | $31K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| S Spirit Rock Meditation Center | $26K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| S Sacred Mountain Sangha | $24K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| I Individual recipient | $17K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $16K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Sarathchandra Buddhist Center INC | $16K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| S Soi Dog Foundation | $12K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S San Francisco Zen Center | $8K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$7K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$7K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | KY | |
Orangutan Foundation International
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$6K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| I Individual recipient | $5K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula | $5K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | CA | |
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$5K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| B Buddhist Global Relief | $5K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Commonweal
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$5K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
| I Insight World Aid | $5K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA | |
Polar Bears International
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$4K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | MT | |
Animals Asia Foundation
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$4K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| L Lion's Roar Foundation | $4K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $4K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Grip Training Institute
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$4K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
New York Insight INC
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$4K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| S Social Good Fund INC | $3K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| P Palestine Childrens Relief Fund | $3K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
San Francisco Dharma Collective
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$3K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Mercy for Animals INC
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$3K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine INC
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$3K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$3K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| E East Bay Meditation Center | $3K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$3K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | AL | |
| H Humane Prison Hospice Project | $2K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| T The Bee and Butterfly Habitat Fund | $2K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| D Doctors Without Borders USA INC | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
World Central Kitchen Incorporated
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| V Vocal-NY | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | MA | |
| I Individual recipient | $2K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Natural Resources Defense Council INC
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$2K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Omprakash INC
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$2K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | WA | |
| Y Yokoji Zen Mountain Center | $2K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | CA | |
| I Insight La INC | $2K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Animal Legal Defense Fund INC
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$2K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | DC | |
| N National Network of Abortion Funds | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Sogorea Te Land Te Land Trust | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Ndn Collective INC
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | SD | |
Movement 4 Black Lives INC
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$2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | GA | |
International Fund for Animal Welfare INC
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$1K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
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$1K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | MT | |
Buddhist Recovery Network
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$1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | OR | |
| I Insight Community of the Desert | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA | |
| N Natural Resources Defense Council INC | $1K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| M Mercy for Animals | $1K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| L Lunch on Me INC | $1K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
Friends of Cloud Mountain
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$1K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | WA | |
| I Individual recipient | $1K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I International Fund for Animal Welfare | $1K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| P Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine | $1K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| G Globalgiving | $1K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| D Dhamma Dena INC | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA | |
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$500 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | DC | |
| I Individual recipient | $500 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $98 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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