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Ellen H Atterbury and Malcolm Atterbury Jr at a glance

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Ellen H Atterbury and Malcolm Atterbury Jr

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$247kCrime & Legal$184kPhilanthropy$155kYouth Development$28k
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$7,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER$14,400
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$14,400
EQUALITY NOW INC$14,400
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$7,200
YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE$7,200
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC$7,200
PROJECT SCIENTIST$7,200
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRAL COAST ALLIANCE UNITED: $15k → 10%PROJECT SCIENTIST: $7k → 10%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $38k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $45k → 14%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $7k → 17%YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE: $8k → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $38k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $37k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $30k → 14%YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE: $8k → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $37k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $35k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $30k → 14%YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE: $7k → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $35k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $30k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $25k → 14%YOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE: $5k → 20%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $30k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $30k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $17k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $30k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 14%JUST COMMUNITIES: $15k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $15k → 18%THE WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER: $14k → 14%JUST COMMUNITIES: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $14k → 18%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $8k → 14%FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $7k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$641k · 6 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +76% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$641k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+76%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Crime & LegalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2020–2026 · $199k · revenue +125%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $199k · revenue +13%
  • FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $162k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • CC
    Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +76%
  • FL
    Future Leaders of Americagraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue +935%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF PRIDE AND EQUALITY
    one grant, 2025 · $8k
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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3
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
4
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
7
Gender Justice League

Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…

Civil Rights
8
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
9
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
10
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
11
California Youth Defender Center Inc

Defend youth rights by building and training a statewide defense coalition that challenges injustices, drives policy change, and champions community.

Crime & Legal
12
Equality California Institute

To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Just Communities Central Coast; the most unlike its peers is House of Pride and Equality. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $198,638 · Crime & LegalWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $198,638 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $161,800 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INCYOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE INC: $27,800 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of America: $7,600 · Youth DevelopmentJust Communities Central Coast: $25,000 · Civil RightsHOUSE OF PRIDE AND EQUALITY: $7,600 · Civil RightsEquality Now Inc: $29,600 · InternationalCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $15,000 · Community ImprovementProject Scientist Inc: $7,200 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $7,200 · Other
Crime & Legal$397,276Philanthropy$161,800Youth Development$35,400Civil Rights$32,600International$29,600Community Improvement$15,000Education$7,200Other$7,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION: $198,638 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $198,638 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $161,800 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG MASTERMINDS INITIATIVE INC: $27,800 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJust Communities Central Coast: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF PRIDE AND EQUALITY: $7,600 over 1y, 13% 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.

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.

California Community …James S Bower Foundat…Fund for Santa Barbar…The McCune FoundationHutton Foundation Dba…Weingart FoundationThe California Wellne…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · The McCune Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ellen H Atterbury and Malcolm Atterbury Jr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen H Atterbury and Malcolm Atterbury Jr. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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