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Dancing Tides Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $893k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $750,000 |
| CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| CATE SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $200,000 |
| CHARITY WATER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOC FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $50,000 |
| MATH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 21 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +81%
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +49%
- CCCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- AVAmerica Votesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +495%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500k
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -26%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cohen Veterans Network Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds MATH FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ALIADOS USA ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · James S Bower Foundation · G a Fowler Family 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 Dancing Tides Foundation Inc 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Saga Innovations Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cohen Veterans Network Inc — 2% of income from government
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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