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Charles Bloom Foundation at a glance

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Charles Bloom Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$599kCivil Rights$210kReligion$22kHealth$7kHuman Services$4kCommunity Improvement$2kAnimals$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$947k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA$1,000
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,000
HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM$1,000
KUSC$500
Individual grant recipient$500
FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA$500
COMMUNITY PARTNERS SHEER POST$250
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CAR CENTER OF: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CAR CENTER OF: $1k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA: $1k → 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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$806k · 11 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$806k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

73%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PP
    PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +8%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +58%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BF
    BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -98%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATER COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Museum Associates

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
Santa Barbara Historical Museum

To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural 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."

Arts & Culture
6
The California Museum for History Women and the Arts

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…

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7
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
8
California Heritage Museum

Provide the southern california community with california fine arts, folk art, and decorative art programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
10
Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
11
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Connecting people with nature and science to inspire stewardship of the natural world.

Arts & Culture
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SB MUSEUM OF ART: $268,525 · OtherSB MUSEUM OF ARTPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $210,000 · OtherPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATIONSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $46,761 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more: $38,499 · Other+13 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $115,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST+3 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $1,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $1,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500 · Education
Other$608,785Arts & Culture$270,000Philanthropy$10,250Human Services$3,000Animals$2,000Community Improvement$1,000Education$500

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 budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Charles Bloom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Bloom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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