Does Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Mosher Foundation.

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California · Private foundation

Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 35%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $500
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 47; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $1.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	22	$34k	14%
FY2024	26	$32k	35%
FY2023	24	$39k	21%
FY2022	18	$38k	22%
FY2021	24	$38k	42%
FY2020	17	$62k	41%
FY2018	46	$134k	30%
FY2017	47	$147k	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$247kFood & Nutrition$56kReligion$54kHealth$50kHuman Services$40kEducation$39kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc	$55,650	8	0%
Music Academy of the West	$46,250	6	0%
Field Museum of Natural History	$29,000	2	0%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$28,000	2	0%
Children and Family Resource Services	$25,000	1	1%
Arco Collaborative Inc	$16,500	7	6%
Munster Medical Research Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Crane Country Day School	$7,000	6	0%
The Caleel Foundation Inc	$6,175	1	n/a
American Osteopathic Foundation	$5,000	1	0%

Show all 46 grantees

All grantees of Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc	$55,650	8	0%
Music Academy of the West	$46,250	6	0%
Field Museum of Natural History	$29,000	2	0%
The Art Institute of Chicago	$28,000	2	0%
Children and Family Resource Services	$25,000	1	1%
Arco Collaborative Inc	$16,500	7	6%
Munster Medical Research Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Crane Country Day School	$7,000	6	0%
The Caleel Foundation Inc	$6,175	1	n/a
American Osteopathic Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
The Santa Barbara Birth Center	$4,000	6	1%
Hinsdale United Methodist Church	$3,300	2	n/a
New York City Ballet Inc	$3,250	4	0%
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc	$3,000	2	0%
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation	$2,900	4	0%
The Jarrett Payton Foundation	$2,000	1	4%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara	$1,550	2	0%
Lobero Theatre Foundation	$1,500	2	0%
One805 Inc	$1,250	2	0%
United Service Organizations of Illinois Inc	$1,200	2	0%
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association	$1,100	2	0%
Hinsdale Humane Society	$1,000	2	n/a
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network	$1,000	1	0%
Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
People Helping People	$800	2	n/a
National Public Radio Inc	$550	1	0%
Human Rights Watch Inc	$500	1	0%
Santa Barbara Historical Museum	$500	1	n/a
Moxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation	$500	1	0%
Friends of Conservation - Friends of the Masai Mara	$500	1	0%
Sarah House of Santa Barbara	$500	1	0%
Santa Barbara Police Officers Association	$310	2	0%
Window to the World Communications Inc	$300	2	0%
People Helping People	$300	1	n/a
Polo Training Foundation	$300	2	0%
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy	$263	1	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$250	1	0%
San Francisco Opera Association	$200	1	0%
Friends of Oak Brook Public Library	$200	2	n/a
Westmont College	$200	1	0%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$150	2	0%
Lyric Opera of Chicago	$150	1	0%
St Josephs Indian School	$100	1	n/a
Organic Soup Kitchen	$100	1	0%
Camp Kesem National	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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 FoundationCA37.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Latkin Charitable 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.

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About Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn

How much does Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn give?: Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn reported 23 grants totaling $34,521 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Religion (10%).
Who are Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($56k), Music Academy of the West ($46k), Field Museum of Natural History ($29k).
Does Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Mosher Foundation.
Where is Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn based?: Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn is based in CA.