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Babich Family Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUNX1 Foundation | $223,500 |
| University of Pennsylvania | $25,000 |
| University of CA Santa Barbara | $10,000 |
| Crane County Day School | $5,000 |
| Vedanta Society of CA | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RFRUNX1 Foundation dba RUNX1 Research Program3× · 2019–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +2% · 87% of their budget
- CCCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $38k · revenue +47%
- SBSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $55k
- UAUCSB ARTS & LECTURESone grant, 2020 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pointing Out the Great Way Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 RUNX1 Foundation dba RUNX1 Research Program ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds POINTING OUT THE GREAT WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNOX SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY 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: Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Manitou Fund · Mildred E & Harvey S Mudd 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 Babich Family 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.
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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