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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k81 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- HMHarvey Mudd College5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +41%
- ACART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +30%
- SBSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- DRDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
- MCMERCY CRUSADE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +47%
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
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.
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.…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
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.
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.
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Pilgrim John Howland Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 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.