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Agnes B Kline Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Zimbabwe Pensioners Support Fund | $1,350 |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $1,350 |
| Carpinteria Education Foundation | $1,350 |
| Carpinteria Childrens Project | $1,350 |
| Families Act | $1,350 |
| Carpinteria Boys and Girls Club | $1,350 |
| Carpinteria Valley Historical Society | $1,350 |
| Carpinteria Cultural Foundation | $1,350 |
| Heal the Ocean | $1,250 |
| Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation | $1,001 |
| Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary | $1,000 |
| Mystic Ocean Adventures | $1,000 |
| Santa Barbara Sea Shell Assn | $750 |
| Healdsburg Rotary Scholarship Fund | $250 |
| U C Santa Cruz Foundation | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- HTHEAL THE OCEAN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +119%
- ZPZIMBABWE PENSIONERS SUPPORT FUND USA9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +43%
- CCCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +8%
- CHCottage Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1k
- GWGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +176%
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.
The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Mission:the foundation for sbhs partners with sbhs leadership to evaluate and fund emergent needs that are outside the scope of the school budget.vision: the foundation for sbhs aims to create the premier public high school where every…
To serve the University, to involve UCSB alumni and students in its affairs and to enlist alumni talents in the preservation and promotion of UCSB's image, tradition, pride and status as a world class university.
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
The primary function of the organization is to provide eligible low-income high school-aged student athletes in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, California, with grants paid to local athletic facilities in order to provide them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Formative Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds ZIMBABWE PENSIONERS SUPPORT FUND USA ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES ACT ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SEA SHELL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds RANCHO BURRO DONKEY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Mystic Ocean Adventures Inc ↗
- Who funds Healdsburg Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds FORMATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · The John C Mithun Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · James S Bower 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 Agnes B Kline Memorial Foundation 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.
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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