· Private foundation
Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY | $22,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CARE 4PAWS INC | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| RESQCATS | $15,000 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE | $10,000 |
| HAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY | $8,000 |
| SHADOWS FUND INC | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALS (VIVA) | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $82k) 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICARE4Paws Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +411%
- WHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +49%
- ASAnimal Shelter Assistance Program8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- SYSANTA YNEZ HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $7k
- KPK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
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.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Animal Rescue
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Animal Welfare
Rescue and place homeless animals
To provide a no kill shelter for homeless pets and promote adoption to good homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Lil Orphan Hammies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds RESQCATS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP ↗
- Who funds HAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS IN NEED FUND ↗
- Who funds LIL ORPHAN HAMMIES ↗
- Who funds K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE 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 · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust · Bragg Health Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · May and Bill Allison Foundation · Ethel Frends Charitable Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Balin Hildegard Charit Tua-Main · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Roy and Ida Eagle 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 Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc 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.