· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k28 grants · $511k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $657k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $366,839 |
| CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT | $290,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $240,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $133,400 |
| CARPINTERIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $126,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| INDEPENDENT LIVING RESCUE CENTER | $108,000 |
| CARPINTERIA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $100,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA | $70,000 |
| VNA HEALTH | $50,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $50,000 |
| SANSUM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| THE LYNDA FAIRLY CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CARPINTERIA | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 9 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +76%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +176%- CCCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +90%
Funded once
- MWMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue +53%
- URUC REGENTSone grant, 2022 · $380k
- DDIGNITYMOVESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · 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.
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.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
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.
At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…
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.
The budget center provides dependable, timely, policy guidance and public education through our independent research and analysis, public education, strategic collaborations, and communications to expand economic opportunities and promote…
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
Nsbcuw is organized to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities in northern santa barbara county, california. nsbcuw works with individuals and organizations to identify and resolve pressing community issues through its…
Southern california grantmakers (scg) is the regional association for philanthropists and grantmakers working to make a difference in our communities and around the world. we are a leadership hub for our members to connect with each other,…
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…
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 109 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CARPINTERIA LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Access Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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