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Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees

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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$132kPhilanthropy$110kEducation$105kArts & Culture$94kHealth$51kHuman Services$36kEnvironment$23kAnimals$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$142k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF$25,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE$10,000
POSITIVE TRACKS$10,000
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$5,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$5,000
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
SANTA BARBARA LAND TRUST$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
FOOD BANK SANTA BARBARA$1,500
ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN OF SANTA BARBARA$1,000
SCHOLARHSIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$1,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$1,000
UNITY SHOPPE$1,000
THE MUTT SCOUTS$1,000
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 (FY18–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION TANZANIA: $15k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $3k → 10%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION TANZANIA: $3k → 11%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $3k → 10%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $500 → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $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

NH
IL
NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
DC
LA
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trusteeslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$603k · 25 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$603k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+56%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    7× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +94%
  • PT
    POSITIVE TRACKS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • CATE SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +160%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -44%
  • KD
    KIDNEY DONOR ATHLETES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +56%

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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Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
2
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
3
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
4
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
5
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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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
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment
11
Sacramento Zoological Society

The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.

Animals
12
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 Schools
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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%63%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,939

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.

05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 45 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIRECT RELIEF — $132,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFCASA DEL HERRERO — $28,500 · OtherCASA DEL HERREROSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $20,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SAN…THE GRANADA THEATER — $20,000 · OtherTHE GRANADA THEATERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $17,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSANTA BARBARA LAND TRUST — $11,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA LAND TRUSTSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $17,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNC…Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc — $10,000 · Other+19 more — $55,000 · Other+19 morePOSITIVE TRACKS INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE TRACKS I…SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $37,500 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOU…THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE — $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PA…CATE SCHOOL — $37,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOLHOLDERNESS SCHOOL — $28,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOO…SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $25,100 · EducationSANTA BARBARA MI…ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $12,000 · EducationROBERT LOUIS STE…+3 more — $3,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $93,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA …Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthORKEESWA INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human Services
International$132,000Other$189,000Philanthropy$110,000Education$105,100Arts & Culture$93,500Health$51,000Human Services$35,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $132,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $93,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE TRACKS INC — $60,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO — $28,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL — $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $25,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetORKEESWA INC — $22,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE — $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY DONOR ATHLETES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Pad — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLeading from Within — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUTT SCOUTS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission Scholars — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…The Kirby-Jones Found…G a Fowler Family Fou…Patricia Bragg Founda…The Matthews Salazar …Tony and Kyra Rogers …Brittingham Family Fo…Audacious FoundationDancing Tides Foundat…Mosher Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Audacious Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · Mosher 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 Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees?

    Find your warmest path to Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 45 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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