· Private foundation
Balin Hildegard Charit Tua-Main
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOC PREV CRUELTY | $25,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $22,000 |
| OASIS INC | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| NBCC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE INC | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMM SANTA BARB CNTY | $20,000 |
| PILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES | $15,000 |
| SARAH HOUSE SANTA BARBARA | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SERVIC AGEN OF SANTA BARBARA COUN | $15,000 |
| THERAPY DOGS OF SANTA BARBARA INC | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS | $15,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC IN SANTA BARBARA CNT | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- FAFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +117%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +142%
- NNBCC4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +260%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SHSELF-HELP HOUSING CORPORATION OF HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -5%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…
To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
Deliver meals and provide informal health and welfare visits to disabled and elderly clients in the Santa Maria Valley.
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
Senior Network Services is a nonprofit agency providing senior citizens and persons with disabilities with information, guidance and assistance in coordinating existing resources to promote independence and the highest quality of life.
Residential home care for developmentally disabled.
No senior should go hungry. nutritious meals, which are delivered by caring volunteers, improve the health and well-being of people who are homebound, elderly, or disabled and help them remain in their homes and maintain their independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc and the most unlike its peers is Atterdag At Home Inc. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 52 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds ATTERDAG AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THERAPY DOGS OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP HOUSING CORPORATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SYV FRUIT & VEGETABLE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
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 · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Towbes Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · The Crawford Idema Family 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 Balin Hildegard Charit Tua-Main 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.