· Private foundation
2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust
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
- Under $10k23 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| CATE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK | $15,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES | $15,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $15,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SANTA BARBARA | $15,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER | $15,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $10,000 |
| WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT | $10,000 |
| TRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
53 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +94%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +98%- EDENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue -22%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL (POU EXHIBIT)one grant, 2019 · $9k
- CNCOLD NOSES WARM HEARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence and the most unlike its peers is Cold Noses Warm Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 67 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Standing Together to End Sexual Assault ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · The B & B Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www 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 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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