· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CECELIA FUND | $3,000 |
| MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER | $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 |
| BREAST RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA | $500 |
| SEE INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| THE FDN FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +100%
Funded once
- TMTRANSITIONS - MENTALone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SCST CECELIA SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization August C Magnus Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from August C Magnus Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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