· Private foundation
Henry E & Lola Monroe 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARABARA INC | $25,000 |
| CARPINTERIA BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| LOS PADRES COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA YOUTH SAILING FDN | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSN | $7,500 |
| SAMSUNG DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIS | $7,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| LOMPOC TEEN CENTER | $5,500 |
| APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| IRONSTONE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARPINTERIA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM5× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +141%
- THTRANSITION HOUSE5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +126%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PBPEBBLE BEACH CONSOURS COMPANY FOUNDone grant, 2024 · $10k
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +68%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
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.
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…
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
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…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…
To educate and support the agricultural community.
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
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.
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOMPOC TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Leading from Within ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESPONSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds IRONSTONE CONCOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Audacious Foundation · California Community Foundation · George B Page Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry E & Lola Monroe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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