· Private foundation
Charles Bloom Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $46,761 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH | $11,650 |
| SBCC FOUNDATION - QUIRE OF VOYCES | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA | $1,000 |
| HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA | $500 |
| KUSC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS SHEER POST | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PPPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +8%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +58%
- HOHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BFBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -98%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2018 · $1k
- ETENSEMBLE THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The california museum - home of the california hall of fame - engages, educates and enlightens people about california's rich history, its diversity, and its unique influence on the world of ideas, innovation, art, and culture. through…
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
Provide the southern california community with california fine arts, folk art, and decorative art programming.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education
Connecting people with nature and science to inspire stewardship of the natural world.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Sheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles Bloom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.