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Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$347k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
10
Organizations funded FY2019
90%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$121,669
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$23k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 90% of the organizations Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201910$347k90%
FY20182$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Religion$133kHealth$52kArts & Culture$50kAnimals$50kCommunity Improvement$39kEducation$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kEnvironment$75

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation

How much does Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation give?
Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $346,633 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Wildlife Conservation Network Inc ($50k), Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc ($32k), Open Source Wellness ($20k).
Does Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Heather and Thomas Sturgess 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 Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation based?
Heather and Thomas Sturgess Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 11 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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