· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC PARISH CORPORATION | $7,500 |
| SAINT THERESE CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| ST VINCENTS INSTITUTION | $6,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $5,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA | $5,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC PARISH CORPORATION | $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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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 15% of Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family 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 +71% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
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
- 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 INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +51%
- SRST RAPHAELS CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $8k
- CCCOWBOY CHURCH OF ERATH COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Isidore Next Generation Foundation. 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 44 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 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 THE MISSIONARY IMAGE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ISIDORE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Louis & Kathleen Ventura Family 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.