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Emmett Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$7.1MEnvironment$4.7MRecreation & Sports$548kArts & Culture$362kHousing & Shelter$333kScience & Tech$319kPhilanthropy$301kHealth$247kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATE SCHOOL$1,581,698
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$500,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$100,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$50,000
SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$50,000
TOMPKINS CONSERVATION$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$50,000
ONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANET$50,000
ALTASEA$30,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$30,000
SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$25,000
THE FUND FOR THE PEOPLE IN PARKS$25,000
SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS$20,000
ECOAMERICA$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 14%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA INC: $2k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $78k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION: $400 → 14%MONTECITO FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 20% of Emmett 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.

Emmett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10.0M · 123 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

123 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
50

Total granted

$10.0M
$540k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

77%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

  • CATE SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +12%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +202%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $333k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +21%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +107%
  • TR
    THE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
3
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
4
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
5
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
6
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

7
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
8
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

11
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
12
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Research and Policy Center and the most unlike its peers is Fuel Freedom Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Youth CampsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%49%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/144
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,834

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.

05the grantee network

137 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 137 of the 192 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/137
Grantees still filing
100/137
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATE SCHOOL — $2,610,698 · EducationCATE SCHOOLUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,034,886 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,005,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUN…+13 more — $476,744 · Education+13 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $400,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FU…TOMPKINS CONSERVATION — $350,000 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSERVATIONNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $313,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENS…Sustainable Conservation — $251,000 · EnvironmentSustainable ConservationSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY — $200,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTO…SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS — $160,000 · EnvironmentGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE — $160,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands Foundation — $160,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $125,000 · Environment+38 more — $957,325 · Environment+38 moreYALE UNIVERSITY — $584,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANET — $425,000 · OtherONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANETTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $290,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYALTASEA — $205,000 · OtherALTASEATHE FUND FOR THE PEOPLE IN PARKS — $200,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL — $160,000 · OtherTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $200,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $201,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $164,000 · Other+106 more — $1,404,850 · Other+106 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION — $333,333 · Human Services+3 more — $8,900 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 — $200,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $58,000 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST DESCENTS — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $166,000 · Public BenefitENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION — $130,000 · Public Benefit
Education$6,127,328Environment$3,076,325Other$3,833,850Human Services$342,233Recreation & Sports$332,000Philanthropy$300,500Public Benefit$296,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATE SCHOOL — $2,610,698 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,034,886 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,005,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $400,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTOMPKINS CONSERVATION — $350,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $333,333 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $313,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $290,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $251,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $201,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY — $200,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $185,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $166,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $164,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS — $160,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE — $160,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation — $160,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION — $130,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $125,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School — $107,400 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $81,344 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $80,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PRESS — $80,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $64,325 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER — $61,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $58,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMON GROUND COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetECOAMERICA — $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRESTORE HETCH HETCHY — $45,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Clean Air — $40,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB — $37,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS — $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChannel Islands Restoration — $32,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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 CATE SCHOOL
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Sustainable Conservation
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
  • Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS
  • Who funds GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation
  • Who funds ENERGY INDEPENDENCE NOW COALITION
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC
  • Who funds The Riviera Ridge School
  • Who funds SOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds ISLAND PRESS
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA44.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones 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 Emmett 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 192 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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