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Natalie Orfalea Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$124,798
Organizations funded a year
6 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Natalie Orfalea Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $673k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$886k52%
FY202328$980k57%
FY202224$905k75%
FY202131$914k74%
FY202017$674k71%
FY201912$421k67%
FY201811$246k91%
FY20176$245kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MEnvironment$1.4MArts & Culture$738kHealth$670kInternational$383kHousing & Shelter$250kEducation$185kFood & Nutrition$177kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
NY
OR
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
SC
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Audacious Foundation$328,942510%
Denver Film Society$212,50022%
Dignitymoves$174,79821%
Kaboom Inc$159,00020%
United Way Inc$155,00010%
Utah Film Center$150,00011%
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine$116,500411%
The Pachamama Alliance$100,00011%
Sansum Clinic$100,00010%
Exposure Labs$100,0001n/a
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All grantees of Natalie Orfalea Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Audacious Foundation$328,942510%
Denver Film Society$212,50022%
Dignitymoves$174,79821%
Kaboom Inc$159,00020%
United Way Inc$155,00010%
Utah Film Center$150,00011%
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine$116,500411%
The Pachamama Alliance$100,00011%
Sansum Clinic$100,00010%
Exposure Labs$100,0001n/a
Community Environmental Council$95,83422%
White Buffalo Land Trust$87,00032%
Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc$80,00051%
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner$75,00011%
World Central Kitchen Inc$75,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$75,00020%
Grist Magazine Inc$74,68121%
Friends of Ballona Wetlands$70,00038%
Santa Barbara County Food Action Network$66,500126%
Climate Foundation$62,50015%
African Women Rising$60,00022%
Leading from Within$55,00034%
The Synergos Institute Inc$50,00021%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics$50,00010%
Greater Yellowstone Coalition$50,00010%
Voter Registration Project$50,00010%
Freedom 4 Youth$50,00015%
Direct Relief$50,00010%
One Heart Worldwide$50,00021%
Sundance Institute$50,00020%
Carpinteria Children's Project$50,00013%
Gwendolyn Strong Foundation$50,00011%
Good Samaritan Shelter$50,00010%
The Tandana Foundation Inc$49,37117%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$40,00010%
Legacy Philanthropy Works$36,00013%
Global Health Corps Inc$30,46610%
Bluedot Institute Inc$26,09216%
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Inc$25,00020%
World Telehealth Initiative$25,00013%
Eden Peopleplanet$25,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$25,00010%
Livingston Healthcare$25,00010%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$25,00010%
Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara$20,00021%
Save the Yellowstone Grizzly$20,000115%
Film Independent$20,00020%
On Being Project$20,00020%
Veterinary Initiative for Endangered Wildlife Inc$20,00015%
The Wildlife Center of Virginia$15,00011%
Prison Yoga Santa Barbara$11,150219%
Advancing Collective Transformation (Fka Uffizi Order)(Dba-Sbact)$10,00012%
Feminist Majority$10,00012%
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation$10,00011%
Afghan Literacy Foundation$10,00012%
Compassion & Choices$10,00010%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$10,00010%
Nature Track Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Buddhist Film Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Organic Soup Kitchen$10,00012%
Friends of Park County$10,00015%
A Human Thread Foundation$10,0001n/a
Farm to School of Park County$10,00013%
Indian Law Resource Center$10,00010%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$5,50010%
Earthjustice$5,00010%
Redford Center Inc$5,00010%
Peace Corps$2,0001n/a
Santa Barbara Audubon Society$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Natalie Orfalea Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAudacious Foundation: $328,942 over 5y, 10% of budgetDenver Film Society: $212,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDignitymoves: $174,798 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKaboom Inc: $159,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $155,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUtah Film Center: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $116,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSansum Clinic: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Environmental Council: $95,834 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWhite Buffalo Land Trust: $87,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHospice of Santa Barbara Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $74,681 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Ballona Wetlands: $70,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSanta Barbara County Food Action Network: $66,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetClimate Foundation: $62,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAfrican Women Rising: $60,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLeading from Within: $55,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetThe Synergos Institute Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Neighborhood Clinics: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Yellowstone Coalition: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVoter Registration Project: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom 4 Youth: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDirect Relief: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Heart Worldwide: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSundance Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarpinteria Children's Project: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGwendolyn Strong Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGood Samaritan Shelter: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Tandana Foundation Inc: $49,371 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegacy Philanthropy Works: $36,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGlobal Health Corps Inc: $30,466 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBluedot Institute Inc: $26,092 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSanta Barbara International Film Festival Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Telehealth Initiative: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEden Peopleplanet: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Voter Participation Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLivingston Healthcare: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSave the Yellowstone Grizzly: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFilm Independent: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOn Being Project: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVeterinary Initiative for Endangered Wildlife Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…James S Bower Foundat…Manitou FundMosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Towbes FoundationG a Fowler Family Fou…Women's Fund of Santa…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Santa Barbara Cottage…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA49.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Manitou Fund · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

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.

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About Natalie Orfalea Foundation

How much does Natalie Orfalea Foundation give?
Natalie Orfalea Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $1,117,419 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Natalie Orfalea Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Environment (21%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Natalie Orfalea Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Audacious Foundation ($329k), Denver Film Society ($213k), Dignitymoves ($175k).
Does Natalie Orfalea Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Natalie Orfalea 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 Natalie Orfalea Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, James S Bower Foundation.
Where is Natalie Orfalea Foundation based?
Natalie Orfalea Foundation is based in CA.

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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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