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Brander Family Foundation CO Laura Gaspar
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Brander Family Foundation CO Laura Gaspar’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Allan Hancock College Foundation | $84,000 |
| Brander Museum of Folk Art | $84,000 |
| CADA | $6,558 |
| Transition House | $5,558 |
| People Helping People | $5,308 |
| Cancer Center of Santa Barbara | $2,808 |
| Hillside House | $2,808 |
| CASA Serena | $2,808 |
| Santa Barbara Foundation | $2,808 |
| Santa Barbara Humane Society | $2,808 |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara | $2,808 |
| Girls Inc | $2,808 |
| Cornerstone House | $2,808 |
| SBCC Foundation | $2,708 |
| Individual grant recipient | $808 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BMBrander Museum of Folk Art7× · 2018–2024 · $492k · revenue +212% · 100% of their budget
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +63%
- THTRANSITION HOUSE7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- SSSBCC Single Parent Scholarshipsone grant, 2019 · $14k
- CFCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +70%
- WEWomen's Economic Venture WEVone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
The organization provides end of life residential care for low-income and homeless persons including those with hiv & non-hiv, as residential care for individuals with hiv/aids.
"The mission of San Benito Health Foundation is to provide quality, affordable comprehensive health services to the community of San Benito County and surrounding areas in a manner that is accountable to the community while being…
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
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.
Cemetery association
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
Giving back to our community through philanthropic avenues to improve housing-related opportunities for the disadvantaged.
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brander Museum of Folk Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 Brander Museum of Folk Art ↗
- Who funds ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Serena ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
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 · Bull Henry W Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable 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 Brander Family Foundation CO Laura Gaspar 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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