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Crystal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MP3 FARMS PET SANC | $2,127 |
| COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANIMAL SERVICES | $775 |
| PITS & PALS K9 RESCUE | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LOLeague of Extraordinary Mutts2× · 2022–2023 · $114k · revenue +42% · 78% of their budget
- CBCalifornia Bully Rescue2× · 2022–2023 · $14k · revenue +105%
- STSHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MRMIRANDAS RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue -40%
- LRLOVELEO RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -11%
- LALOVED AGAIN PET RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $9k
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 help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare
Rescue animals
Animal care and rescue
Rescue of abused or abandoned animals
rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is House of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 110 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 WAGMOR PETS ↗
- Who funds WOOFY ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds League of Extraordinary Mutts ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIRANDAS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds California Bully Rescue ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds LOVELEO RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BAILING OUT BENTLEY ↗
- Who funds No Stray Left Behind ↗
- Who funds CANTU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY CAT INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOR HORSES ↗
- Who funds Pack Lyfe Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LOST BALL CANINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINTE DONKEY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
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: Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · John R Oltman Charitable Foundation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Davidson Foundation for Music Dance and Dramatic Arts · Susan & Jerome Ettelson Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Bernard Weinberg 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 Crystal Family 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.
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