Wisconsin · Private foundation
Gainey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Gainey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.9M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.9M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $2.0M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $800,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Laguna Blanca School | $750,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation | $750,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $600,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Braille Institute of America Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $327,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Transition House | $300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation | $270,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Music Academy of the West | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Opera Santa Barbara | $250,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gainey Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · California Community Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable
How this is measured
About Gainey Foundation
- How much does Gainey Foundation give?
- Gainey Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,926,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Gainey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (26%), Health (24%).
- Who are Gainey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics ($800k), Laguna Blanca School ($750k), Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation ($750k).
- Does Gainey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gainey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gainey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Jackson Family Foundation, The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Gainey Foundation based?
- Gainey Foundation is based in WI.
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