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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of HENRY E & LOLA MONROE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| LOS PADRES COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARABARA INC | $25,000 |
| CARPINTERIA BOYS GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA YOUTH SAILING FDN | $10,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIS | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSN | $7,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| SAMSUNG DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| LOMPOC TEEN CENTER | $5,500 |
| APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CARPINTERIA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| IRONSTONE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +72% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Calaveras County Fair. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Leading from Within ↗
- Who funds LOMPOC TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESPONSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Pebble Beach Company Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IRONSTONE CONCOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
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 · 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
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 Henry E & Lola Monroe 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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