· Private foundation
Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA F | $40,000 |
| LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| OPERA SANTA BARBARA | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA TR FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATI | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSN | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CTR FOR THE PERFORMING ART | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $202k · revenue +157%- OSOPERA SANTA BARBARA6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +25%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CDCASA DEL HERREROone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- SCSANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -54%
- MLMARJORIE LUKE THEATREone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
Cemetery association
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.
To support the ongoing activities of the santa barbara museum of art.
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…
Museum of contemporary art santa barbara (mcasb) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. mcasb provides santa barbara and the central coast with exhibitions and…
To provide cultural enrichment to the community through education, events and programming.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Cruz Island Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA BARBARA CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Mosher Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Oshay Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Godric Foundation · The Leslie S and Philip L Bernstein Family Fund · Elizabeth and John Moller 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 Griffiths G H & O J Char Fdn 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.
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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