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Gainey Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.7MEducation$2.6MHealth$2.4MHuman Services$700kPhilanthropy$615kHousing & Shelter$340kYouth Development$200kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY - COTTAGE HOSPITAL FDN$170,000
SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS$150,000
SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$100,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL$100,000
TRANSITION HOUSE$100,000
CHC CENTRAL COAST$100,000
SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$91,000
ISD 761 FOUNDATION$80,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$50,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA$50,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$50,000
SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIA$50,000
HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER$50,000
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 (FY20–24, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $50k → 10%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $50k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $50k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $50k → 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

MN
MA
OR
IA
CA
NM
TN
DC

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 26 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$8.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+9%

Still filing today

81%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +103%
  • LB
    LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $750k · revenue +33%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $750k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • CA
    CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $120k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Health
2
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc

To provide a vibrant performing arts center that generates and promotes excellence in the performing arts and enhances the quality of life in the region by offering outstanding and diverse entertainment, including events of cultural and…

Arts & Culture
3
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
4
Camerata Pacifica

Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…

Arts & Culture
5
Santa Barbara Middle School

To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…

Education
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
7
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education
8
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
10
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
11
Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc

Entertain and engage our community through musical performance and education.

Arts & Culture
12
Medical Staff of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

The purpose of the Medical Staff of Santa Barbara is to assure that all patients admitted to or treated at Cottage Health facilities (hospitals) receive a uniform standard of quality care, treatment and efficiency consistent with generally…

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
695/5,727

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 52 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
26/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ISD 761 FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherISD 761 FOUNDATIONSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART — $400,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTIndividual grant recipient — $335,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $327,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBA…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIACANCER FOUNDATION OF — $150,000 · OtherTRANSITION HOUSE — $300,000 · OtherTRANSITION HOUSE+20 more — $1,195,000 · Other+20 moreSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $800,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEIG…Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation — $270,000 · HealthSanta Ynez Valley …CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $250,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION …Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital — $200,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cott…+3 more — $120,000 · Health+3 moreMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF …LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FO…OPERA SANTA BARBARA — $250,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA SANTA BARBA…COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS MU…SOLVANG THEATERFEST INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureSOLVANG THEATERFE…SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $190,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA SYM…CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ARTS & ENTER…Notes For Notes Inc — $70,000 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $750,000 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA S…Santa Barbara Education Foundation — $600,000 · EducationSanta Barbara E…SANTA YNEZ PIRATE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $450,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE I…HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER — $200,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS TH…SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $100,000 · Human ServicesSANTA YNE…Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $50,000 · Human ServicesChannel I…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $50,000 · Human ServicesCasa Paci…SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $750,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $515,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,307,000Health$1,640,000Arts & Culture$1,530,000Education$1,400,000Human Services$850,000Recreation & Sports$750,000Philanthropy$515,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $800,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $750,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $600,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $515,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $450,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $327,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $300,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation — $270,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $250,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $250,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $200,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER — $200,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetSOLVANG THEATERFEST INC — $200,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $190,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC — $120,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $100,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoleta Valley Cottage Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA YNEZ PIRATE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetTHE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958 — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Mosher FoundationCalifornia Community …Latkin Charitable Fou…Towbes FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…The John C Mithun Fou…G a Fowler Family Fou…Walter J & Holly O Th…
Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gainey 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 52 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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