California · Private foundation
La Centra-Sumerlin 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $366,839
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $2.4M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $2.5M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $6.6M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $4.2M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $298k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $238k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $208k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $3,569,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $2,950,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Carpinteria Children's Project | $1,010,000 | 8 | 19% |
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $525,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria | $384,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $353,231 | 5 | 1% |
| Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc | $336,500 | 4 | 66% |
| Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara | $300,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network | $275,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
How this is measured
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About La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation
- How much does La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation give?
- La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $2,520,739 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($3.6M), Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($3.0M), Carpinteria Children's Project ($1.0M).
- Does La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation based?
- La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation is based in CA.
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