· Private foundation
Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CARE4PAWS | $5,000 |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE | $5,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THERAPY DOGS OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICARE4Paws Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +281%
- SBSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +77%
- ASAnimal Shelter Assistance Program4× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- SFSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +168%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide a no kill shelter for homeless pets and promote adoption to good homes.
To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
The goal of the SPCA San Pat County is to maintain an animal shelter that serves the needs of the county. It serves the county and communities within that county by providing a shelter where people can adopt a homeless pet and as long as…
Our mission is to improve the lives of cats and dogs by providing compassionate care, finding homes for homeless animals, and supporting pets and pet owners in need. We accomplish this mission by taking cats and dogs that do not have a…
To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds THERAPY DOGS OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Resqcats Inc · Chrissie's Fund a Delaware Trust · Balin Hildegard Charit Tua-Main · Ethel Frends Charitable Foundation · Bragg Health Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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