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Linked 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 $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $61,189 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $50,000 |
| CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT | $20,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $15,000 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY | $10,000 |
| PRO MUJER INC | $10,000 |
| FONKOZE USA | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUN | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CARPINTERIA | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $3,000 |
| LEADING FROM WITHIN | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 9% of Linked 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.
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 +83% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- GPGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS6× · 2017–2023 · $846k · revenue +116%
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS8× · 2017–2024 · $730k · revenue +177%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE7× · 2018–2024 · $424k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +47%
- PTPOWER TO DECIDEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +68%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $65k
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.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project and the most unlike its peers is Power to Decide. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 44 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 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FONKOZE USA INC ↗
- Who funds POWER TO DECIDE ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leading from Within ↗
- Who funds PRO MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
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 · James S Bower Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · California Community Foundation · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy 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 Linked 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.
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% 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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