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Carlota Busch Families Foundation Inc at a glance

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Carlota Busch Families Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$56kHealth$53kYouth Development$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kAnimals$15kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$893k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
OJANI VALLEY SCHOOL$10,000
RIO GRANDE SCHOOLS$9,000
WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS$5,000
GENEVA SCHOOL$5,000
CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
ACADEMY HOLY NAMES$5,000
CASA TREATMENT CENTER$1,000
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 (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $5k → 12%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

NY
MA
CA
CO
NM
DC
HI
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 5 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$93k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • UH
    ULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +51%
  • TG
    The Geneva School Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +20%
  • CT
    CASA TREATMENT CENTER
    2× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEATHERBACK PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • GC
    GARDENER CAREY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • LF
    LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Biocom California

Accelerating life science success.

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2
Bloodworks

Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.

Health
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
The Riviera Ridge School

What We Do | MissionWe provide student-centered, individualized learning in a joyful, and nurturing community, inspiring academic excellence and valuing difference.Why We Do It | VisionTo empower individual potential, inspire purpose…

Education
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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8
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
11
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
12
Upwell Turtles

To protect and recover endangered populations of turtles by reducing threats at sea.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $37,020 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICESThe Geneva School Inc: $16,000 · EducationThe Geneva School IncOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationOJAI VALLEY SCHOOLCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC S…THE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $9,000 · OtherTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOLGARDENER CAREY: $5,000 · OtherGARDENER CAREYLEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA FOUNDATIONACADEMY HOLY NAMES: $5,000 · OtherACADEMY HOLY NAMES+1 more: $1,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 K…ULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $21,520 · Youth DevelopmentULTIMATE HAWA…THE LEATHERBACK PROJECT INC: $12,500 · AnimalsTHE LEATH…REVIVE & RESTORE: $2,000 · AnimalsREVIVE & …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,020 · HealthCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $2,000 · HealthTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · Civil RightsAdopt a Family Inc: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$63,020Other$41,000Human Services$25,000Youth Development$21,520Animals$14,500Health$5,020Civil Rights$4,500Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $37,020 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetULTIMATE HAWAIIAN TRAIL RUN FOUNDATION INC: $21,520 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Geneva School Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEATHERBACK PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RIO GRANDE SCHOOL: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt a Family Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetREVIVE & RESTORE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Carlota Busch Families Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carlota Busch Families Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 18 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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