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Hind Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$13MHuman Services$6.0MEnvironment$4.6MAnimals$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.2MRecreation & Sports$505kEducation$365kReligion$182kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $440k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$2,000,000
SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE$750,000
SPOKES$240,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$100,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$100,000
LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM$28,000
SAVING HORSES INC$10,000
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEMPERVIRENS FUND: $15k → 8%LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM: $45k → 9%VALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $100k → 9%SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $1.0M → 10%LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER: $10k → 11%LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $389k → 12%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%SCOTTS VALLEY COMMUNITY THEATER GUILD: $50k → 13%SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY: $265k → 14%ABBEY OF THE NEW CLAIRVAUX: $182k → 15%THE XERCES SOCIETY INC: $50k → 12%LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM: $28k → 9%VALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $100k → 9%SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $150k → 10%SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 11%SPOKES: $240k → 12%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $75k → 12%SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250k → 14%THE XERCES SOCIETY INC: $50k → 12%SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $100k → 10%SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 11%SPOKES: $240k → 12%CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA: $1.0M → 12%SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $225k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%SAVING HORSES INC: $10k → 11%SPOKES: $120k → 12%CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA: $1.0M → 12%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $2.2M → 14%SPOKES: $120k → 12%CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA: $1.0M → 12%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $2.2M → 14%SPOKES: $120k → 12%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $1.8M → 14%SPOKES: $120k → 12%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $1.6M → 14%SPOKES: $120k → 12%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $750k → 14%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $300k → 11%SPOKES: $120k → 12%SAN LUIS OBISPO CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $49k → 12%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $161k → 14%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $234k → 11%WESTMONT COLLEGE: $100k → 14%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $180k → 11%LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%VILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS: $150k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 19 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
20

Total granted

$22M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+35%

Still filing today

89%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MA
    MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST
    4× · 2017–2021 · $6.2M · revenue +18% · 32% of their budget
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +81%
  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
    2× · 2017–2019 · $2.5M · revenue +204% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • CM
    CARMEL MISSION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue +35%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +25%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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3
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
4
California Nature Art Museum

To inspire our community and visitors to enjoy, value and conserve wildlife and natural areas through art. we provide artistic, educational and field experiences of nature for that purpose.

Arts & Culture
5
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
7
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
8
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
10
Santa Barbara Historical Museum

To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.

Arts & Culture
11
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum

Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…

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12
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is Villa Chardonnay Horses With Wings. 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 49 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr12%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr12%66%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
15%
12,065/82,393

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 41 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $6,202,633 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WESTCAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA — $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureCAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO…CARMEL MISSION FOUNDATION INC — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureCARMEL MISSION FOUNDATION INCSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE — $750,000 · Arts & CultureSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE+13 more — $930,242 · Arts & Culture+13 moreGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,000,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND…GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $2,550,000 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOT…Spokes — $1,200,000 · OtherSpokesABBEY OF THE NEW CLAIRVAUX — $182,000 · Other+5 more — $120,000 · OtherSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $1,250,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $389,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $225,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $200,000 · Environment+2 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentVILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS — $863,915 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $175,000 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Animals+2 more — $71,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Recreation & SportsSANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY INC — $265,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGE — $100,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$12,682,875Human Services$6,000,000Other$4,052,000Environment$2,089,000Animals$1,709,915Recreation & Sports$500,000Education$365,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $6,202,633 over 4y, 32% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $6,000,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $2,550,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $1,250,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetSpokes — $1,200,000 over 8y, 89% of budgetVILLA CHARDONNAY HORSES WITH WINGS — $863,915 over 4y, 23% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE — $750,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOLVANG THEATERFEST INC — $400,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY — $389,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY INC — $265,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $250,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $225,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $200,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $175,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $73,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC — $51,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetSCOTTS VALLEY COMMUNITY THEATER GUILD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $49,250 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO MUSEUM OF ART — $26,998 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC BALLET OF SAN LUIS OBISPO INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARTS VISALIA — $3,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSymphony of the Vines — $2,494 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Shanbrom Family F…Schlinger Family Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Santa Barbara Foundat…Marin Community Found…The Chicago Community…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Shanbrom Family Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Hind 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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