· Private foundation
Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $766k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Santa Maria Philharmonic | $30,000 |
| Pacific Conservatory of the Perf Ar | $30,000 |
| Partners in Housing Solutions | $30,000 |
| Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum | $30,000 |
| Marian Regional Medical Center Fdn | $25,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $25,000 |
| MOVE Santa Barbara County | $25,000 |
| New Beginnings | $25,000 |
| Santa Barbara Humane Society | $25,000 |
| Woods Humane Society | $25,000 |
| OASIS Center | $25,000 |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $25,000 |
| Pacific Wildlife Care | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $466k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- WHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +49%
- SMSANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +147%
- FBFIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +388%
Funded once
- DCDunes Centerone grant, 2019 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $30k
- MHMarian Hospital Foundationone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.
CASA of Santa Cruz advocates for children and youth, providing court appointed volunteers so each child in the dependency and juvenile court system feels cared for and connected with the people, families and resources they need to heal and…
To provide high quality, family-focused, strength-based services to build reslient communities throughout santa barbara county, including newborn visitation, parent & teacher education
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County and the most unlike its peers is Los Alamos Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 106 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 WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Future Leaders of America ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds ORCUTT AREA SENIORS IN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONSMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Central Coast Literacy Council ↗
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 · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Mark and Dorothy Smith Family Foundation · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · James S Bower 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 Edwin and Jeanne Woods 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.