· Private foundation
Ann Jackson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k120 grants · $477k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $200,000 |
| CASA DEL HERRERO FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ABUSE | $100,000 |
| DUNN SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| SOLVANG SENIOR CENTER | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| COTTAGE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $62,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY AQUATICS FOUNDATION SANTA YNEZ VALLEY | $50,000 |
| ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANSUM DIABETES RESEARCH CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
225 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 62 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- DSDUNN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $860k · revenue +29%
- LBLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $662k · revenue +62%
- TRThe Rona Barrett Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $625k · revenue +6% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TPTHE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIESone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR HAAS PREEMINENCE (UC BERKELEY)one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Cemetery association
The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hands 4 Others. 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 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
194 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 194 of the 335 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DUNN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Rona Barrett Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Towbes Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family 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 Ann Jackson Family 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.
- Willamette University — 1% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Ann Jackson Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Ann Jackson Family Foundation 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.