· Private foundation
Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of San Diego | $78,100 |
| The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| Santa Barbara Count Firefighters Benevolent Found | $13,000 |
| St Louis County Police Welfare Association | $10,000 |
| Calvary Chapel of Santa Barbara | $10,000 |
| Polo Players Support Group | $10,000 |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara | $10,000 |
| California Rangeland Trust | $6,000 |
| Polo Training Center Santa Barbara | $5,400 |
| Special Olympics | $5,000 |
| Challenged Athletes Foundation | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara | $5,000 |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $5,000 |
| Mercy Health Foundation - Women with a Mission | $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 (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO8× · 2017–2024 · $840k · revenue +60%
- TRThe Riviera Ridge School3× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +111%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- NLNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATESone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -69%
- SJSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +11%
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 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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
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…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vandenberg Spouses Club. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
155 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. 155 of the 195 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 UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Polo Players Support Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds The Curetivity Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CTY FIREFIGHTERS BEN FND ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KUTO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds DOCS IN PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOC ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Bull Henry W Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin 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 Kim and Andrew D Busch Family 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.
- The Transition House Inc — 2% of income from government
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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