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G a Fowler Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| FREEDOM 4 YOUTH | $60,000 |
| USD BURNHAM-MOORES CENTER | $60,000 |
| SIEMPRE UNIDOS | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $50,000 |
| PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING | $50,000 |
| UC REGENTS | $30,000 |
| CALM | $27,500 |
| MISSION SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| AFRICAN WOMEN RISING | $25,000 |
| LOMPOC TEEN CENTER | $25,000 |
| ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $12,600 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE CENTRAL COAST | $10,100 |
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 (FY17–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS6× · 2018–2023 · $590k · revenue +141%
- SUSIEMPRE UNIDOS8× · 2017–2024 · $421k · revenue +6%
- LBLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $335k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION - RESILIENT COMMUNITIESone grant, 2019 · $482k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -23%
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +32%
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is LA84 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 254 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SIEMPRE UNIDOS ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM 4 YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds THE IVAN CARTER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION RETIREMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds LOMPOC TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Www Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Manitou Fund
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 G a Fowler 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.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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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