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Lojo Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Lojo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalEducationAnimalsArts & CultureSocial ScienceOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$60k20%
FY202413$42k31%
FY202316$47k13%
FY202223$65k22%
FY202130$85k23%
FY202031$102k13%
FY201922$63k32%
FY201821$41k48%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$95kEducation$76kEnvironment$72kPhilanthropy$39kYouth Development$26kAnimals$21kCommunity Improvement$20kInternational$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 49 grantees
All grantees of Lojo Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Cranwell Family Foundation Inc$25,00022%
Maine Center for Economic Policy$22,50041%
School Justice Project Inc$20,00051%
Storyteller Childrens Center Inc$17,50050%
Blue Hill Community Development$17,500410%
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc$17,50040%
The Carpenters Boat Shop$16,00081%
Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria$15,00040%
K9s for Warriors Inc$15,00010%
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust$14,50070%
Carpinteria Arts Center$13,00022%
Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society$12,50055%
Home Inc$12,00080%
Heal the Ocean Inc$11,00041%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$11,00040%
Ripple Effect Images$10,00012%
African Leadership Foundation$10,00010%
Montecito Trails Foundation$9,50042%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$8,50030%
Aha Foundation Inc$8,50040%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust$8,50040%
Tree of Life Inc$7,50061%
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden$6,50040%
International Women's Media Foundation$6,00030%
Sya Foundation$5,50012%
Carpinteria Children's Project$5,50030%
Maine People's Resource Center$5,00020%
African Women Rising$5,00020%
Center for Farmworker Families$4,50030%
Elimisha Kakuma$3,50022%
Relief International Inc$3,00030%
High Country News$3,00020%
Unity Shoppe Inc$3,00020%
Redford Center Inc$2,50010%
Too Young to Wed Inc$2,50010%
Carpinteria Skate Foundation$2,50010%
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission$2,50010%
New York Studio School$2,00030%
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$2,00020%
Frances Perkins Center$1,0001n/a
California Lutheran University$1,00010%
Pen American Center Inc$1,00010%
Human Rights Watch Inc$1,00010%
The Cradle Society$1,00010%
Santa Barbara Audubon Society$1,00011%
Solar Sister Inc$1,00010%
Association for a More Just Society -Us$1,00010%
United Recovery Fund$1,0001n/a
Santa Barbara Equine Assistance and Evacuation Team$1,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lojo Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Cranwell Family Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMaine Center for Economic Policy: $22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSchool Justice Project Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetStoryteller Childrens Center Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Hill Community Development: $17,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetFund for Santa Barbara Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carpenters Boat Shop: $16,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Carpinteria: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Rivers Conservation Trust: $14,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCarpinteria Arts Center: $13,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society: $12,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHome Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRipple Effect Images: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAfrican Leadership Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontecito Trails Foundation: $9,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAha Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Hill Heritage Trust: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTree of Life Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Botanic Garden: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Women's Media Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSya Foundation: $5,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCarpinteria Children's Project: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMaine People's Resource Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican Women Rising: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Farmworker Families: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetElimisha Kakuma: $3,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRelief International Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Country News: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRedford Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarpinteria Skate Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Rescue Mission: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Studio School: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Lutheran University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cradle Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Audubon Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSolar Sister Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation for a More Just Society -Us: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Equine Assistance and Evacuation Team: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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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 FoundationCA26.7× affinity11 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 · 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

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.

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About Lojo Foundation

How much does Lojo Foundation give?
Lojo Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lojo Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Education (15%), Environment (14%).
Who are Lojo Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Cranwell Family Foundation Inc ($25k), Maine Center for Economic Policy ($23k), School Justice Project Inc ($20k).
Does Lojo Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lojo 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 Lojo Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Lojo Foundation based?
Lojo Foundation is based in ME.

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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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