Skip to content
Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees at a glance

· Private foundation

Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees

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.

$159k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$145kInternational$135kEducation$131kYouth Development$60kHealth$54kEnvironment$51kPhilanthropy$48kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF$70,000
POSITIVE TRACKS$15,000
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$12,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SHELTERBOX USA DONATIONS$8,000
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
SANTA BARBARA LAND TRUST$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
THEATRE UP$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST$3,000
UC REGENTS$2,500
FOOD BANK SANTA BARBARA$2,500
UNITY SHOPPE$1,035
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF$1,000
SANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trusteeslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$736k · 32 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
10

Total granted

$736k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+56%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +94%
  • PT
    POSITIVE TRACKS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +3%
  • CATE SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -44%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +160%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +374%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
7
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
8
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
9
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
10
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

—
11
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
12
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIRECT RELIEF: $202,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFCASA DEL HERRERO: $28,500 · OtherCASA DEL HERREROTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $21,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SAN…THE GRANADA THEATER: $20,000 · OtherTHE GRANADA THEATERSANTA BARBARA LAND TRUST: $16,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA LAND TRUSTSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 · OtherSHELTERBOX USA DONATIONS: $8,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $22,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNC…Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $69,500 · Other+22 morePOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPOSITIVE TRACKS I…SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $49,500 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOU…THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PA…CATE SCHOOL: $37,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOLHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $29,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCH…SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $26,100 · EducationSANTA BARBARA …ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationROBERT LOUIS S…+3 more: $4,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $93,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBAR…THEATRE UP: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $3,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthORKEESWA INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC: $3,035 · Human ServicesAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $2,000 · Human Services
International$202,000Other$227,500Philanthropy$137,000Education$108,100Arts & Culture$98,500Health$64,000Human Services$37,535

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $202,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $93,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE TRACKS INC: $75,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $28,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $26,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetORKEESWA INC: $22,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $21,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Pad: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDNEY DONOR ATHLETES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHEATRE UP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BICYCLE COALITION DBA MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUTT SCOUTS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $3,035 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeading from Within: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission Scholars: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Augustone Foundation Uagr Dtd 121107 Christopher D Blau Et Al Trustees’ filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home