· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC PARISH CORPORATION | $7,500 |
| ST VINCENTS INSTITUTION | $6,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $5,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC PARISH CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $5,000 |
| MOTHERS HELPERS INC | $4,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $2,500 |
| MOXY UP | $2,000 |
| ST ISIDORE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST JUNIOR GOLF INC | $1,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +71% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +199%
- LFLymeLight Foundation5× · 2018–2022 · $45k · revenue +99%
- SVST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- NONIGHT OFF THE STREETS INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +11%
- SRST RAPHAELS CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $8k
- TLTHE LYME CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To provide poor bolivian children and young people with economic assistance and emotional support, enabling them to receive a quality education at the primary, secondary, or university level. a secondary purpose is to provide economic…
Our mission is to protect, nurture and educate abandoned children so that they are able to live healthy and fulfilling lives, from childhood through early adulthood. we achieve this mission by ensuring that all of our children's needs are…
To help and support the youth of ecuador.
Divine providence home is located in ogoja, nigeria. divine providence home (dph) was established in 2007 by reverend sister mary rita abang of the handmaids of the holy child jesus - a catholic order under the sisters of charity. when the…
The mission was established to take children off the street and give them a home in as close to a normal home setting as possible. they are sent to school and are given a biblical background in every day living. a program was started in…
To reduce poverty and inspire hope for families in juarez, mexico by: 1) providing community support; 2) assisting with education of children; 3) improving the living conditions via home building and repairs. community support includes…
Missionary work for the poor
Promise Home orphanage provides for the needs of the abused, abandoned, and neglected of Honduras. Including food, shelter, and training.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
The father's heart foundation international provides religious, charitable, educational, and humanitarian support to desperate and hurting persons.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 SAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LymeLight Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NIGHT OFF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Marys Hands ↗
- Who funds THE LABOURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD CALL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Moxy Up ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST JR GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ISIDORE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIVINE MERCY PROVINCE OF HERALDS OF GOOD NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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