· Private foundation
Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $766k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Pacific Conservatory of the Perf Ar | $30,000 |
| Partners in Housing Solutions | $30,000 |
| Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Santa Maria Philharmonic | $30,000 |
| New Beginnings | $25,000 |
| Woods Humane Society | $25,000 |
| OASIS Center | $25,000 |
| Santa Barbara Humane Society | $25,000 |
| MOVE Santa Barbara County | $25,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $25,000 |
| Marian Regional Medical Center Fdn | $25,000 |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $25,000 |
| CASA of Santa Barbara County | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- UCUCLA Chicano Studies Research Centeone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 PCPA FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- 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 ANIMALS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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