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Dingman Family Foundation

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.

$206k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$63k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$284kArts & Culture$165kHuman Services$109kEnvironment$85kHealth$70kEducation$30kInternational$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANSITION HOME$63,000
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION$28,000
DIRECT RELIEF SOCAL WILDFIRE$25,000
THE LAND TRUST OF SB$20,000
SALVATION ARMY$20,000
SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY$10,000
ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
FEEDING TAMPA BAY$10,000
OJAI RAPTOR CENTER$5,000
HILLSIDE HOUSE$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUMAN GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $8k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $5k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
VA
KS
DC
OK
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$715k · 15 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$715k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+13%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • TH
    TRANSITION HOUSE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $163k · revenue +68%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    4× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +32%
  • SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -4%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • LP
    LOS PADRES COUNCILBSA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy
4
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.

Health
7
Sutter Coast Hospital

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
9
Emanate Health

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
10
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
San Antonio Hospital Foundation Inc

To develop the resources to support san antonio regional hospital's mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humangood Foundation West; the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANADA THEATER: $60,000 · OtherGRANADA THEATERLAND TRUST OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherLAND TRUST OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTYHILLSIDE HOUSE: $49,500 · OtherHILLSIDE HOUSEUSO: $35,000 · OtherUSODIRECT RELIEF SOCAL WILDFIRE: $25,000 · OtherDIRECT RELIEF SOCAL WILDFIRETHE LAND TRUST OF SB: $20,000 · OtherTHE LAND TRUST OF SBTHE SALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSALVATION ARMY SANTA BARBARA: $17,000 · Other+8 more: $47,500 · Other+8 moreTRANSITION HOUSE: $163,000 · Housing & ShelterTRANSITION HOUSESANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSIONSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA…ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEA…Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $65,000 · HealthSanta Bar…SANSUM CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthSANSUM CL…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $14,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS TH…HUMANGOOD FOUNDATION WEST: $10,000 · Human ServicesHUMANGOOD…+1 more: $600 · Human ServicesFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · International
Other$334,000Housing & Shelter$224,000Arts & Culture$105,000Health$70,000Human Services$69,600Education$30,000International$25,000

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 budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $163,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $61,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE: $49,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $14,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Raptor Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCharity Navigator: $600 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARDEN SHORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANGOOD FOUNDATION WEST ↗
  • Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
  • Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OUR ARMED FORCES WALT VANBENTHYSEN ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗

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.

Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Boston Foundation IncLatkin Charitable Fou…Mosher FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Dingman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dingman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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