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Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack 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.

$205k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$63,333
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$144k13%
FY20238$164k25%
FY20227$237k0%
FY20216$94k17%
FY202012$123k42%
FY20198$31kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$583kReligion$349kHealth$312kArts & Culture$17kRecreation & Sports$9kEnvironment$7kHousing & Shelter$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sansum Clinic$265,00040%
Bowdoin College$70,00050%
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation$45,00060%
Episcopal Relief and Development$30,00030%
The Latin School of Chicago$27,50050%
Central Coast Ocean Adventures Inc$5,00010%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History$5,00010%
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission$3,00020%
Catalina Island Womens Forum$2,00025%
Casa del Herrero$2,00020%
Auxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale$1,20013%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($337k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSansum Clinic: $265,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Relief and Development: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Latin School of Chicago: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Coast Ocean Adventures Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Rescue Mission: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCatalina Island Womens Forum: $2,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCasa del Herrero: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAuxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale: $1,200 over 1y, 3.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation

How much does Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation give?
Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $205,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Religion (27%), Health (24%).
Who are Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Sansum Clinic ($265k), Bowdoin College ($70k), Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ($45k).
Does Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation based?
Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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