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Asis 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONE SOUP CAFE | $18,000 |
| ZEN PEACEMAKERS | $11,500 |
| Share our Strength-No Kid Hungry | $10,000 |
| Crane School | $5,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Livingston Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Earth Island Inst-PLASTIC POLLUTION | $5,000 |
| PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN WOMEN RISING | $2,000 |
| Santa Barbara Agricultural Farm Ed | $1,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $1,000 |
| VNA Health Foundation | $1,000 |
| Motion Picture Television Fund | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN | $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 (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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 +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
SHARE OUR STRENGTH6× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +60%- SSStone Soup Cafe Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +262%
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TLThe Lobero Foundationone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%
- DRDIRECT RELIEF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
We pursue bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster just and compassionate vegan living through education and policy advocacy.
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…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm to School of Park County and the most unlike its peers is St Elmo Village. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 65 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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Stone Soup Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Livingston Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds FARM TO SCHOOL OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Notes For Notes Inc ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ELMO VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE YELLOWSTONE GRIZZLY ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds CROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIHI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISHTOYO FOUNDATION DBA WISHTOYO CHUMASH 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · California Community Foundation · The Dovana Foundation Inc · Natalie Orfalea Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Park County Community Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Glassybaby Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens 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 Asis 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.
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% 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.
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