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Guerin 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FACES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $25,000 |
| ANN GUERIN FRIENDSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SAVING INNOCENCE | $5,500 |
| INDIVISIBLE ARTS | $5,000 |
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $5,000 |
| URBAN PROMISE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA ZOO | $5,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND | $4,000 |
| WEMENTOR 360 | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- MSMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +46%
- OIONE805 INC2× · 2023–2024 · $203k · revenue +45%
- NVNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC4× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +2%
- MUMontecito Union School Foundationone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -23%
- YPYOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $20k
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 ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
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 St Joseph Center and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 83 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 MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ONE805 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds iMENTOR GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montecito Union School Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach Democracy ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF ELYSIUM ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons 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 Guerin 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.
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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