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Bull Henry W Foundation at a glance

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Bull Henry W Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$652k
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MHealth$723kHuman Services$521kCrime & Legal$280kAnimals$276kEducation$234kFood & Nutrition$183kYouth Development$149kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $407k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY$40,000
NYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC$40,000
DEZART PERFORMS$35,000
THE LIVING DESERT$30,000
CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST$20,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS$20,000
SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$18,000
SB ACT$15,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$15,000
LITTLE STAR PONY FOUNDATION$12,000
COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF SAN LUIS$12,000
TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC$10,000
SAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RAINBOW ACRES: $5k → 14%ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT: $5k → 15%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SHLTR: $5k → 20%HELPING PAWS: $5k → 11%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER: $5k → 5%CHILDREN IN CRISIS INC: $10k → 8%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $10k → 11%FLORIDA DREAM CENTER: $5k → 12%FAMILY TREE: $5k → 7%MILITARY MOBILITY: $6k → 11%ANGEL HEART PAJAMA PROJECT: $5k → 15%THE ACHIEVABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HOPES DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $5k → 5%FAMILY TREE: $5k → 7%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%CRISIS CENTER FOR SOUTH SUBURBIA: $5k → 14%PROJECT KINSHIP: $10k → 10%FOOTHILL FAMILY: $5k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $15k → 14%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $5k → 11%CITY OF REFUGE SACRAMENTO: $5k → 12%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $10k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $5k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES: $5k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 12%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF PHOENIX: $5k → 11%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $5k → 11%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $5k → 11%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIFE: $5k → 14%MAPS CHARITIES: $5k → 14%SERVICE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIFE: $5k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $5k → 14%PATH SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $5k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $10k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
SC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 98 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

98 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
153

Total granted

$2.7M
$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    6× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +72%
  • DP
    Dezart Performs
    5× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +421%
  • SL
    SAN LUIS OBISPO SYMPHONY INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY DANCE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIV
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • H
    HILLSIDE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
3
Southern California Rehabilitation Services Inc

To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.

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4
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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5
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
6
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
7
Disability Rights California

Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.

Civil Rights
8
La Casa de las Madres

La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…

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9
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
10
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
11
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
12
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County

To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

199 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 199 of the 285 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
197/199
Grantees still filing
129/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AAP - FOOD SAMARITANS: $125,000 · OtherAAP - FOOD SAMARITANSPERFORMING ARTS CENTER SAN LUIS OBISPO: $82,000 · OtherPERFORMING ARTS CENTER SAN LUIS OBISPONEW YORK DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Other1880 HOUSE: $50,252 · Other+92 more: $1,071,101 · Other+92 moreDezart Performs: $185,000 · Arts & CultureDezart PerformsSAN LUIS OBISPO SYMPHONY INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISPO SYMP…Opera San Luis Obispo Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOpera San Luis Obisp…Orchestra Novo Inc: $45,000 · Arts & CultureOrchestra Novo IncSAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE: $33,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $23,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $82,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreDAP Health Inc: $111,500 · HealthDAP Health IncKECK MEDICAL CENTER OF USC: $36,000 · HealthKECK MEDICAL C…Sansum Diabetes Research Institute: $35,000 · HealthSansum Diabete…TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthTEDDY BEAR CAN…AIDS Assistance Program: $26,000 · HealthAIDS Assistanc…Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $20,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $18,000 · Health+19 more: $167,900 · Health+19 moreChildren of the Night: $40,000 · Human ServicesChildren o…FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP…GABRIELS ANGELS INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesGABRIELS A…UNITY SHOPPE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOP…DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENT…Crisis Center for South Suburbia: $16,000 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $13,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $13,000 · Human Services+20 more: $135,500 · Human Services+20 morePacific Legal Foundation: $220,000 · Crime & LegalCriminal Justice Legal Foundation: $15,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $11,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNYC DANCE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationDUNN SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $23,000 · EducationCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $18,000 · EducationDENVER KIDS INC: $18,000 · EducationAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $16,000 · EducationGET FOCUSED STAY FOCUSED INC: $15,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationArmy Scholarship Foundation Inc: $15,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $60,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $50,000 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc: $25,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · AnimalsTRAVELING PAWS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsRIVERSIDE HUMANE SOCIETY PET ADOPTION CENTER: $10,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $8,000 · Animals+4 more: $21,000 · Animals
Other$1,398,353Arts & Culture$636,000Health$469,400Human Services$343,000Crime & Legal$256,000Education$225,000Animals$224,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $220,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDezart Performs: $185,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO SYMPHONY INC: $140,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetDAP Health Inc: $111,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOpera San Luis Obispo Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetOrchestra Novo Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetChildren of the Night: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKECK MEDICAL CENTER OF USC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO MASTER CHORALE: $33,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO WIND ORCHESTRA INC: $27,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS Assistance Program: $26,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJODI HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT): $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $23,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $20,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWings of a Butterfly: $16,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $16,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCrisis Center for South Suburbia: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetApraxia Kids: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGET FOCUSED STAY FOCUSED INC: $15,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Williams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Latkin Charitable Fou…The Wood-Claeyssens F…June G Outhwaite Char…Towbes FoundationMosher FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…St Francis Foundation…Volentine Family Foun…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA88.9× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · Volentine Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bull Henry W Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bull Henry W Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Dream Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 285 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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