About Living Peace Foundation
The Living Peace Foundation concentrates its giving through a very small number of large grants, primarily routing the bulk of funds into an intermediary impact funding vehicle. Outside that major pass-through, it supports water/environmental initiatives and organizations linking spirituality or values to education, as well as international/foreign-affairs–oriented philanthropic projects. This pattern suggests the foundation favors strategic, high-dollar placements and a mix of direct program support and pooled/managed impact investments.
Focus Areas
Donor-advised or pooled impact investing (via global impact funding vehicles)Water stewardship and experiential water/environmental programs (Aquarius Water Experience)Spirituality-informed education programs (Collaborative for Spirituality in Education)International philanthropic support/foreign-affairs funding intermediaries (American Friends of Big Change)
Who They Fund
students / scholarship recipientseducators (for travel and professional development)outdoor program participants / backcountry users
About Living Peace Foundation
A $7,605,028 general-support grant to Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust is the clearest signal of how Living Peace Foundation operates: it places a very large share of capital through a pooled impact vehicle, while also backing direct grants tied to water, spirituality in education, and community-minded environmental work. The foundation describes itself as an operating foundation supporting people and projects that advance compassion, collaboration, and living peace. Outside the major pass-through, Living Peace Foundation has given repeated support to organizations such as Aquarius Water Experience Foundation and The Ecology Center, along with a grant to Collaborative for Spirituality in Education. Those awards point to a mix of environmental stewardship, experiential programming, and values-based education. The foundation also uses unrestricted and general donation support across several grantees, including nonprofits in California and beyond. Recent gifts include support for community environmental work, spiritual education, and foreign-affairs-oriented philanthropy intermediaries, showing a portfolio that combines direct program support with managed or intermediary giving.
What Living Peace Foundation Funds
In water and environmental work, Living Peace Foundation gave $250,000 to Aquarius Water Experience Foundation for general donation and later supported Oceana with $80,000 for general donation. It also backed Aspen Center for Environmental Studies twice, including $70,000 in 2024 and $13,500 in 2025, both unrestricted. In education-related philanthropy, the foundation gave $100,000 to Collaborative for Spirituality in Education for general donation, and it supported California State University Channel Islands with $75,000 in 2024 and $20,000 in 2023. Community and health-oriented grants appear as well: Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc received $25,000 unrestricted in 2025, and Mesa Independent Living received $50,000 for general donation in 2024. These awards show a mix of institutional support and project-level funding across several cause areas.
How Living Peace Foundation Gives
Living Peace Foundation’s disclosed grant sizes cluster around a median of $17,500, with a p25 of $10,000 and a p75 of $50,000. The recent record also shows a very large outlier at $7,605,028 to a pooled impact funding trust, alongside multiple mid-sized unrestricted and general donations. The foundation is an operating foundation and uses both general grants and partner-grant structures. Its recent grants show repeat support to some organizations across multiple years, including The Ecology Center, Oceana, California State University Channel Islands, and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. Some programs accept unsolicited requests, while others do not, suggesting more than one giving channel.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$7.7M
Total Assets
$2K
Total Revenue
$166K
Total Expenses
$7.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $50K, with a median of $18K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$18K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
Regional8 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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