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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%DREAM FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $25k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 163 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
67/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+99 more: $1,198,155 · Other+99 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+13 more: $160,550 · Arts & Culture+13 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$1,808,755Arts & Culture$1,151,550Education$800,650Food & Nutrition$552,800Animals$372,450Philanthropy$235,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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 budgetNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA CHORAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 budget
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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mosher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mosher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 163 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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