· Private foundation
Lojo 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 $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRANWELL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLUE HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAL VALLE | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY | $2,500 |
| AFRICAN WOMEN RISING | $2,500 |
| ELIMISHA KAKUMA | $2,500 |
| BLUE HILL LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| SEDGWICK BROOKLIN HISTORICAL SOCIET | $2,500 |
| BLUE HILL HERRITAGE TRUST | $2,500 |
| TREE OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| THE CARPENTER'S BOAT SHOP | $1,000 |
| HOME | $1,000 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 4 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- SCSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC5× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +72%
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +134%- MCMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- PFPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k
K9S FOR WARRIORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +87%- RERIPPLE EFFECT IMAGESone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -42%
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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 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.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cranwell Family Foundation Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 72 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 STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRANWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds THE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK-BROOKLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds AHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · The Diskant Famiy Foundation · The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family Foundation · The Victor and Susan Schaff Family 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 Lojo 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.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.