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2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$308k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$955kInternational$565kYouth Development$175kHealth$153kEducation$120kCommunity Improvement$115kAnimals$78kScience & Tech$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $230k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$25,000
CATE SCHOOL$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER$15,000
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
HEAL THE OCEAN$15,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SANTA BARBARA$15,000
GREENPEACE FUND$15,000
CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK$15,000
TRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION$10,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$10,000
AMAZON WATCH$10,000
EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$10,000
PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NM
AR
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 53 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+83%

Still filing today

68%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EnvironmentInternationalEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +94%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +98%
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue -22%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL (POU EXHIBIT)
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • CN
    COLD NOSES WARM HEARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
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
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
2
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
World Resources Institute

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…

International
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
10
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
11
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $77,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SANTA BARBARA: $60,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE SANTA BARBARAFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $49,000 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEJESSIE'S PLACE - UMBUMWE CENTER: $48,000 · OtherJESSIE'S PLACE - UMBUMWE CENTERGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $47,500 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA B…ISRAAID: $42,000 · OtherANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $45,000 · OtherANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTEFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $50,000 · OtherFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc+30 more: $244,155 · Other+30 moreGREENPEACE FUND INC: $120,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INCTHE CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK: $80,000 · EnvironmentTHE CALIFORNIA WATER IMPAC…Amazon Watch Inc: $70,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch IncADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION: $63,000 · EnvironmentADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS…TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $45,000 · EnvironmentTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL …COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $39,500 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL CO…Earth Island Institute Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentDIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $144,000 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONALMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $134,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $67,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SC…PCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $20,000 · International+2 more: $15,000 · InternationalWALKING MOUNTAINS: $55,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOL: $45,000 · EducationWORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY: $27,500 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $17,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $120,500 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalWilderness Youth Project Inc: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $87,500 · Public Benefit
Other$823,155Environment$592,500International$570,500Education$159,500Crime & Legal$145,500Youth Development$115,000Public Benefit$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $190,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $144,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $134,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $120,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $115,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $100,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $87,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WATER IMPACT NETWORK: $80,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $67,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURERS AND SCIENTISTS FOR CONSERVATION: $63,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $55,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $50,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $49,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $47,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $45,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $39,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS ACADEMY: $27,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $23,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $21,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $20,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD NOSES WARM HEARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBuilding Biology Institute Corp: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Turpin-Allebrand …The B & B FoundationThe Kirby-Jones Found…Schlinger Family Foun…Marin Community Found…Dancing Tides Foundat…Patricia Bragg Founda…The McCune FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…Www Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA39.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to 2005 Tomchin Family Charitable Trust 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 67 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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