· Private foundation
Brittingham Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $965k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| USC MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $139,880 |
| SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $100,000 |
| US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FOUR WINDS INC | $50,000 |
| REX FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS PRODUCTIONS INC | $40,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $26,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
| THACHER SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| O-HIGHER ED | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 35% of Brittingham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k 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
- TTThe Thacher School Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +32%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $728k · revenue +39%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $526k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- LVLOMPOC VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ORGone grant, 2019 · $50k
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +216%
- MSMISSION SPRINGS CHRISTIAN CAMPone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
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…
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,…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
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.
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.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Village Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 114 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds REX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Coastal Ranches Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
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 · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Www Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens 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 Brittingham 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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