· Private foundation
August C Magnus Memorial Fund
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER | $3,000 |
| THE CECELIA FUND | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT WALLS | $2,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC | $1,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP DAYCARE CENTER FOR SENIORS | $1,500 |
| FOOD FROM THE HEART | $1,500 |
| VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SEE INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| THE FDN FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE | $500 |
| BREAST RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA | $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 (FY24–25, $3k) 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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +70%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +137%
- FFFOOD FROM THE HEART INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- TMTRANSITIONS - MENTALone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SCST CECELIA SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Vna health provides home health and hospice services to patients in santa barbara and the surrounding area.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
Savie health's mission is to provide free medical, dental and vision care to uninsured adults in santa barbara county and beyond, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, immigration status, religion or sexual orientation.
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.
Cemetery association
To provide financial support to hospice of santa barbara, inc.
The purpose of the Medical Staff of Santa Barbara is to assure that all patients admitted to or treated at Cottage Health facilities (hospitals) receive a uniform standard of quality care, treatment and efficiency consistent with generally…
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
The cancer foundation is the leading sponsor and largest donor to the ridley-tree cancer center at sansum clinic, the largest provider of cancer care on the central coast. each year, the foundation commits a minimum of 85% (up to 100%) of…
"The mission of San Benito Health Foundation is to provide quality, affordable comprehensive health services to the community of San Benito County and surrounding areas in a manner that is accountable to the community while being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL 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 · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Bull Henry W 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 August C Magnus Memorial Fund 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.