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Mosher Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$1.6MArts & Culture$1.4MEducation$997kFood & Nutrition$609kAnimals$392kPhilanthropy$267kEnvironment$259kCivil Rights$156kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $481k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $969k
$5,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHABILITATION AND GOLETA VALLEY$150,000
MOXI$102,600
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$102,500
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$102,000
SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION$100,000
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$56,500
WESTMONT COLLEGE$52,500
CAMA$52,000
MISSION SCHOLARS$50,900
LOMPOC THEATRE PROJECT CORPORATION$50,000
PROVIDENCE SCHOOL$50,000
ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN$35,000
APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL$32,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$31,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1k → 14%ADAMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $800 → 17%COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA: $1k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $1k → 14%CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 14%FOOD FROM THE HEART: $1k → 14%FOOD FROM THE HEART: $1k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $25k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $1k → 14%DREAM FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $2k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $2k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 75 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
66

Total granted

$4.8M
$831k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $608k · revenue +28%
  • LB
    LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +18%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $217k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +11%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDA
    one grant, 2021 · $106k
  • CO
    Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Barbara Middle School

To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…

Education
2
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.

Philanthropy
3
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Recreation & Sports
4
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

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5
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education
6
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
7
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The following three guiding principles are the foundation for all of the santa barbara museum of natural history's activities: inspiring an awe for nature and a thirst for discovery; promoting sustainability; and connecting our…

Arts & Culture
8
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

Museum of contemporary art santa barbara (mcasb) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. mcasb provides santa barbara and the central coast with exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture
9
Santa Barbara Cemetery Association

Cemetery association

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10
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

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.

Environment
11
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
South Coast Community Media Access Center Dba Tv Santa Barbara

To provide citizens with access to television and other electronic media resources in order to facilitate public dialogue, free speech and participatory democracy; to foster local creativity, education and culture; and to reflect our…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Usa Green Communities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/114
the rest of the field
11%
230/2,158

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.

04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
68/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $608,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Ho…Sansum Diabetes Research Institute — $315,000 · HealthSansum Diabetes Research…Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp — $150,000 · HealthFoundation for Cottage R…VNA HEALTH — $100,300 · HealthVNA HEALTHCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $100,000 · HealthCouncil on Alcoholism & …SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $69,900 · Health+8 more — $47,600 · HealthMOXI — $164,100 · OtherMOXICAMA — $162,000 · OtherCAMACANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA — $108,500 · OtherCANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARASANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDA — $106,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOU…SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Other+100 more — $1,200,655 · Other+100 moreMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $514,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE…SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $130,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA SYMPHO…OPERA SANTA BARBARA — $125,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA SANTA BARBARASANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERN…SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $72,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA CENTER…LOMPOC THEATRE PROJECT CORPORATION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $158,050 · Arts & Culture+12 moreLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $220,000 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA …WESTMONT COLLEGE — $179,500 · EducationWESTMONT COLLE…SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationSAN MARCOS HIG…Mission Scholars — $62,150 · EducationMission Schola…PROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $55,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE SCH…UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $44,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBA…APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL — $37,000 · EducationLOMPOC TEEN CENTER — $30,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $29,000 · Education+5 more — $44,000 · Education+5 moreFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $504,800 · Food & NutritionFoodbank …ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN — $42,000 · Food & NutritionORGANIC S…+2 more — $6,000 · Food & NutritionSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $217,450 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $150,000 · Animals+1 more — $5,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $129,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $76,750 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE — $18,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $11,500 · Philanthropy
Health$1,390,800Other$1,811,255Arts & Culture$1,149,050Education$800,650Food & Nutrition$552,800Animals$372,450Philanthropy$235,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $608,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $514,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $504,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute — $315,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $220,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $217,450 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $179,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $130,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $129,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVNA HEALTH — $100,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $76,750 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $72,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $69,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMission Scholars — $62,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAAPLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $56,050 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE SCHOOL — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELINGS PARK FOUNDATION — $52,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $46,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN — $42,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL — $37,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $36,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLeading from Within — $31,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC — $30,250 over 1y, 30% of budgetSTATE STREET BALLET — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLOMPOC TEEN CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $29,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC — $28,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $26,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $23,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $23,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES — $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA CHORAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE — $18,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $18,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA — $16,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Williams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Towbes FoundationJune G Outhwaite Char…Manitou FundThe Kirby-Jones Found…Bull Henry W Foundati…Brittingham Family Fo…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA141.2× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Manitou Fund · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · Brittingham 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 Mosher 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mosher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mosher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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