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Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHealth$383kRecreation & Sports$141kArts & Culture$68kYouth Development$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$64kReligion$49kAnimals$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of San Diego$78,100
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary$15,000
Santa Barbara Count Firefighters Benevolent Found$13,000
Hospice of Santa Barbara$10,000
Calvary Chapel of Santa Barbara$10,000
St Louis County Police Welfare Association$10,000
Polo Players Support Group$10,000
California Rangeland Trust$6,000
Polo Training Center Santa Barbara$5,400
Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara$5,000
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Special Olympics$5,000
Challenged Athletes Foundation$5,000
Mercy Health Foundation - Women with a Mission$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Angels Foster Family Network: $5k → 11%Colab Foundation: $4k → 12%Break the Barriers Inc: $500 → 19%Womens Housing Coalition Inc: $500 → 14%Puget Sound Regional Services: $500 → 9%Angels Foster Family Network: $500 → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $25k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $10k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $5k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $3k → 11%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $1k → 11%Lemay Child and Family Center: $1k → 11%The Innocence Project Inc: $1k → 17%San Diego County Deputy Sheriffs Foundation: $3k → 11%St Louis County Police Welfare Association: $10k → 11%The Dalmatian Dreams dba Dream Foundation: $11k → 14%The Dalmatian Dreams dba Dream Foundation: $3k → 14%The Dalmatian Dreams dba Dream Foundation: $3k → 14%The Dalmatian Dreams dba Dream Foundation: $3k → 14%Friendship Adult Day Care Center Inc: $3k → 14%Family Therapy Institute of SB: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
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SD
OH
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RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
MS
GA
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 76%.

Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 57 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
113

Total granted

$1.6M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+20%

Still filing today

81%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $840k · revenue +60%
  • TR
    The Riviera Ridge School
    3× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +111%
  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • NL
    NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -69%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
8
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health
9
California Institute for BioMedical Research

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…

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10
Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
11
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
12
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

156 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 156 of the 195 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/156
Grantees still filing
98/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $840,350 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOST MARY & ST LOUIS ABBEY: $62,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · OtherNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES: $50,000 · Other+106 more: $480,434 · Other+106 moreSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S H…Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: $25,000 · HealthSanta Barbara …Sansum Diabetes Research Institute: $20,000 · HealthSansum Diabete…SANSUM CLINIC: $19,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINICBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $16,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER U…Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $16,500 · HealthSanta Barbara …CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $15,500 · HealthCANCER FOUNDAT…The Curetivity Foundation: $15,000 · HealthThe Curetivity…NEW HOPE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthSANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM: $11,000 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · Health+25 more: $57,000 · Health+25 moreThe Riviera Ridge School: $52,600 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $25,000 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,627 · EducationSAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $14,000 · EducationKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $7,000 · EducationCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Human ServicesST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOC: $10,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE COLAB FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Human Services+9 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $11,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL POLICE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,500 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,300 · PhilanthropyRotary Club of Montecito Foundation Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons: $1,916 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,750 · PhilanthropyPolo Players Support Group Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPOLO TRAINING CENTER SANTA BARBARA: $5,400 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsDOCS IN PROGRESS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $9,500 · Arts & CultureOLD SPANISH DAYS IN SANTA BARBARA INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO: $3,000 · Arts & CultureELDERHEART INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $1,200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,484,784Health$278,000Education$128,227Human Services$91,000Philanthropy$55,466Recreation & Sports$37,400Arts & Culture$33,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $840,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $52,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $43,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $32,084 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPolo Players Support Group Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,627 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Curetivity Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $14,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CTY FIREFIGHTERS BEN FND: $13,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNEW HOPE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $12,350 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $11,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM: $11,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKUTO CORPORATION: $11,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKims Hope: $6,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOLD SPANISH DAYS IN SANTA BARBARA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE: $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOLO TRAINING CENTER SANTA BARBARA: $5,400 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMEDIA4GOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRANSITION HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Mosher FoundationThe Wood-Claeyssens F…Rudi Schulte Family F…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…Bull Henry W Foundati…Latkin Charitable Fou…Williams-Corbett Foun…La Centra-Sumerlin Fo…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA75.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Transition House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 195 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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