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Elizabeth Bixby Janeway 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.
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
- $10k–50k16 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $550,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $325,000 |
| STAND TOGETHER TRUST | $260,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $100,000 |
| ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $100,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER TEXAS | $90,000 |
| DALLAS WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL | $85,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $80,000 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA | $75,000 |
| PEOPLE CONCERN | $60,000 |
| WARFIGHTER MADE | $55,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $55,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +92%- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $845k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GSGREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +42%
- CMCALVARY MURRIETA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $40k
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 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…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is New Harmony Fire Association. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 76 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Warfighter Made ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds Portal Schools ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP CHILD CARE PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATOR ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds CLIENTEARTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · Www Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart 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 Elizabeth Bixby Janeway 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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