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Bp Moser Trust

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.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$156kYouth Development$136kArts & Culture$68kHealth$41kPhilanthropy$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kFood & Nutrition$30kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$30,000
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA$20,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$10,000
SCRIPPS COLLEGE$10,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$10,000
PEBBLE BEACH CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE$7,500
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM$5,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC$5,000
VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARE$5,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$5,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$4,000
MERRAG$2,000
MAUI UNITED WAY$2,000
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 (FY19–24, $26k) 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.

area typical 11%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $3k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $3k → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $5k → 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.

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$493k · 19 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$493k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-1%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +174%
  • PB
    Pebble Beach Company Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +83%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • LP
    LOS PADRES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -52%
  • UB
    UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • UB
    UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
4
Santa Barbara Middle School

To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…

Education
5
Santa Barbara Historical Museum

To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.

Arts & Culture
6
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education
7
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.

Philanthropy
8
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
9
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
10
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ironstone Concours 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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr9%5%35–55yr12%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%2%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr9%11%35–55yr12%49%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
16%
3,116/19,251

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $118,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARABOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · OtherBOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICAYoung America's Foundation — $30,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationPEBBLE BEACH CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE — $22,500 · OtherPEBBLE BEACH CONCOURS D'ELEGANCEVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARE — $20,000 · OtherVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARELOS PADRES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 · OtherLOS PADRES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICASANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATIONNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Other+7 more — $44,000 · Other+7 morePebble Beach Company Foundation — $35,000 · PhilanthropyPebble Beach …SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUN…+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBAR…SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $22,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBAR…MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $8,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEM…SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWESTMONT COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationScripps College — $14,500 · EducationMERRAG — $3,000 · EducationIRONSTONE CONCOURS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness Youth Project Inc — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK — $5,000 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$337,500Philanthropy$69,000Arts & Culture$68,000Education$37,500Youth Development$35,500Human Services$25,500Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $118,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $35,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIRONSTONE CONCOURS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS PADRES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetScripps College — $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMERRAG — $3,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeading from Within — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $2,000 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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Henry E & Lola Monroe…Brittingham Family Fo…Towbes FoundationMosher FoundationManitou FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Bp Moser Trust 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 31 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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