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Argonaut Charitable Foundation

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.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$103kEnvironment$84kHealth$83kPhilanthropy$81kReligion$73kArts & Culture$69kAnimals$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k81 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$959k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S FOUNDATION HOSPITAL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$8,500
MALIBU GATHERING CHURCH$5,000
HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE$5,000
SAINT MONICA'S SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$4,000
OUR LADY OF MALIBU$3,500
COASTAL MAINE BOTANIAL GARDENS$3,000
BARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$3,000
THOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION$3,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$3,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,500
CAPE ELIZABETH LAND TRUST$2,500
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%WAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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ID
WI
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IN
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$559k · 94 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

94 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
8

Total granted

$559k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+47%

Still filing today

59%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HM
    Harvey Mudd College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +41%
  • AC
    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +30%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • DR
    DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • MC
    MERCY CRUSADE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +47%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
3
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
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
6
Rainforest Trust

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

International
7
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
8
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
11
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
12
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Memorial Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%50%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,907

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.

04the grantee network

67 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MALIBU GATHERING CHURCH — $36,000 · OtherMALIBU GATHERING CHURCHST JOHN'S FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherST JOHN'S FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLST JOHN'S FOUNDATION HOSPITAL — $20,000 · OtherST JOHN'S FOUNDATION HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $15,500 · OtherBARBARA BUSH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $14,000 · Other+55 more — $177,000 · Other+55 moreHarvey Mudd College — $17,000 · EducationHarvey Mudd C…ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $16,500 · EducationART CENTER CO…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $13,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…OPUS ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER INC — $6,500 · EducationOPUS ARCHIVES…KHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY …NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $5,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOG…THOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationTHOMAS MEMORI…+3 more — $5,000 · Education+3 moreMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $9,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast H…PROTECT OUR WINTERS — $9,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR W…SANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $8,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA…SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $6,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA…Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Maine…DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY — $5,000 · EnvironmentDOWNEAST COAS…Ojai Raptor Center — $5,000 · EnvironmentOjai Raptor C…SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA…Cape Elizabeth Land Trust — $4,000 · EnvironmentCape Elizabet…Maine Audubon Society — $4,000 · EnvironmentMaine Audubon…Coastal Ranches Conservancy — $3,500 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $3,000 · Environment+3 more — $3,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $15,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $5,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $4,000 · AnimalsLast Chance for Animals — $3,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $3,000 · AnimalsMERCY CRUSADE INC — $2,500 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $5,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $4,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $4,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMarine Mammals of Maine — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $2,000 · Arts & CultureONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE — $2,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $13,500 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesWAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHERASURF — $1,000 · Human ServicesSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $4,000 · HealthCLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · HealthMedicine for Humanity — $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 · HealthTHIS LITTLE LIGHT — $1,000 · Health
Other$332,500Education$72,500Environment$70,000Animals$33,500Arts & Culture$32,000Human Services$24,500Health$24,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHarvey Mudd College — $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAWAKENING TO GOD MINISTRIES — $9,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY — $8,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOPUS ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER INC — $6,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Raptor Center — $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaja Christian Ministries — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCape Elizabeth Land Trust — $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Audubon Society — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Ranches Conservancy — $3,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedicine for Humanity — $3,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CRUSADE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartners for World Health — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ELIZABETH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 Harvey Mudd College
  • Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
  • Who funds AWAKENING TO GOD MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY
  • Who funds OPUS ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTER INC
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM
  • Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc
  • Who funds DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Ojai Raptor Center
  • Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds Baja Christian Ministries
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC
  • Who funds WAY OF COMPASSION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KHAN ACADEMY 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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Pond Family Foundation · Bucy Family Fund · Brittingham Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Manitou Fund · California Community 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 Argonaut Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • The Pilgrim John Howland Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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