Delaware · Private foundation
Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- 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, 67% of the organizations Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $47k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $46k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $64k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $44k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $50k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $39k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $42k | 73% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marks University | $60,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Saint Therese Classical Academy | $58,000 | 8 | 5% |
| LymeLight Foundation | $45,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Vincent's Institution | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Police Activities League Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Night Off the Streets Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Parish Corporation | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mothers' Helpers Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Our Lady of Sorrows | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Raphaels Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marks University | $60,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Saint Therese Classical Academy | $58,000 | 8 | 5% |
| LymeLight Foundation | $45,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Vincent's Institution | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Police Activities League Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Night Off the Streets Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Parish Corporation | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mothers' Helpers Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Our Lady of Sorrows | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Raphaels Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Marys Hands | $7,500 | 2 | 3% |
| The Laboure Society Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Hillside House | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mary's Meals USA Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pastor of St Theresa Parish- South Lake Tahoe a Corporation Sole | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Good Call Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Norbertine Association of St Joseph | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Moxy Up | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Coast Jr Golf Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tidy Seas | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kiwanis Foundation of Santa Barbara | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Isidore Next Generation Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Divine Mercy Province of Heralds of Good News Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dominican Friars Guilds | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roman Archbishop of Los Angeles a Corporation Sole | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emanuel Lutheran Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Concern America | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Junior League of Santa Barbara · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation with peer funders
About Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation
- How much does Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation give?
- Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Religion (19%), Health (15%).
- Who are Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Marks University ($61k), Saint Therese Classical Academy ($58k), LymeLight Foundation ($45k).
- Does Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family 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 Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Latkin Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation based?
- Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation is based in DE.
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