· Private foundation
George C Karlson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOOVER INSTITUTION OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| YMCA YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON | $10,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $10,000 |
| MARINE CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION | $8,500 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $7,500 |
| LOMPOC FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA | $3,500 |
| CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT | $2,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $2,000 |
| THE CECILIA FUND | $1,500 |
| MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND8× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +56%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +70%
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +103%
- CHCECES HOPE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +102%
- DDIGNITYMOVESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +130%
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 mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
The housing trust fund's mission is to provide affordable housing opportunities to low, moderate and middle income residents of santa barbara county.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Domestic violence solutions of santa barbara county is dedicated to providing safe harbor to all victims of domestic violence and their children throughout santa barbara county.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ceces Hope Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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
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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CECILIA FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds CECES HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL ↗
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 · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The M and M Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · The Crawford Idema Family Foundation Inc · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ann Jackson Family 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 George C Karlson 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 0% 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.