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Busch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$251kHealth$137kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$36kAnimals$29kReligion$26kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$8,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Palma School Foundation$22,500
Olive Crest Hope Refuge$12,750
The Defensive Line$12,750
Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Cen$10,750
Livingston Memorial VNA Hospice$8,200
Community Memorial Healthcare Found$3,200
Museum of Ventura County$3,200
Girls Inc of Central Coast$2,750
Boys Girls Club of the Redwoods$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 10%Olive Crest Hope Refuge: $14k → 10%PALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40k → 12%YOUTH NOW: $13k → 13%ST RAPHAEL CHURCH: $5k → 14%The Defensive Line: $13k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 7%St Agnes Home: $14k → 11%PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $13k → 11%COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 10%Olive Crest Hope Refuge: $13k → 10%RANCHO CIELO: $3k → 12%Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Cen: $11k → 13%DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 14%ST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 7%ST BONAVENTURE HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 12%YOUTH NOW: $10k → 13%DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 14%LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VNA: $13k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 12%Jacob's Heart: $5k → 13%DOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 14%Livingston Memorial VNA Hospice: $8k → 10%PALMA HIGH SCHOOL: $37k → 12%Community Bridges: $5k → 13%GALS GIVE BACK: $13k → 14%COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 10%Palma School Foundation: $35k → 12%YOUTH NOW: $5k → 13%SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VNA: $5k → 10%PALMA HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 12%SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VNA: $5k → 10%Palma School Foundation: $23k → 12%COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 10%PALMA HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 12%COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 10%UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $15k → 12%LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VNA: $5k → 10%PALMA HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 12%LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%Community Memorial Healthcare Found: $4k → 10%Community Memorial Healthcare Found: $3k → 10%MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $5k → 10%MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $5k → 10%Museum of Ventura County: $3k → 10%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 12 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$439k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

42%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PS
    PALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +788%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +68%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -91%
  • SB
    ST BONAVENTURE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CS
    Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue 0%
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
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) is dedicated to providing access to quality comprehensive health care to men, women and children with an emphasis on farm worker families and the agricultural community.

Health
2
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
3
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health
4
Central Coast Vna & Hospice Inc

Central coast vna & hospice, inc. is dedicated to providing the highest quality home care to the residents of the central coast by meeting their individual needs in a caring, effective, honorable, and accessible manner.

Health
5
Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County

Domestic violence solutions of santa barbara county is dedicated to providing safe harbor to all victims of domestic violence and their children throughout santa barbara county.

Human Services
6
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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7
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.

Human Services
8
Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation

To improve, in partnership with others, access to needed health care for the most vulnerable and underserved children and seniors of ventura county.

Health
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
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $94,300 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIAYOUTH NOW: $28,000 · OtherYOUTH NOWOlive Crest Hope Refuge: $26,750 · OtherOlive Crest Hope RefugeDOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL: $23,400 · OtherDOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOLST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $21,400 · OtherST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLST BONAVENTURE HIGH SCHOOL: $14,500 · OtherJacob's Heart Children's Cancer Cen: $10,750 · OtherST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+12 more: $49,250 · Other+12 moreCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $65,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALT…LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $32,800 · HealthLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISI…Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus: $14,000 · HealthCarmelite Sisters of the…The Defensive Line Inc: $12,750 · HealthThe Defensive Line IncPALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $97,500 · EducationPALMA SCHOOL FOUNDA…UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyGALS GIVE BACK INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $17,700 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Bridges: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$278,350Health$124,550Education$97,500Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$17,700Housing & Shelter$15,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALMA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $97,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $32,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $17,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALS GIVE BACK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ventura County Commun…Monterey Peninsula Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ventura County Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Busch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Busch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 31 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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