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Pajadoro Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$34,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Pajadoro Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
AnimalsHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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 arriving17$174k12%
FY202318$179k28%
FY202214$191k7%
FY202115$126k13%
FY202018$110k6%
FY201918$108k17%
FY201818$105k22%
FY201715$87kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$275kAnimals$165kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kHealth$107kHuman Services$86kArts & Culture$66kEnvironment$65kHousing & Shelter$63kOther$0

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
Santa Barbara Police Foundation$140,000814%
Pacific Legal Foundation$125,00080%
Vna Health Foundation$45,00060%
Laguna Cottages for Seniors$42,50062%
The Friendship Paddle$42,00073%
Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation$41,00040%
Direct Relief$40,00040%
Heal the Ocean Inc$30,00061%
Ganna Walska Lotusland$30,00060%
Transition House$20,00020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($406k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pajadoro Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Barbara Police Foundation: $140,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $125,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVna Health Foundation: $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLaguna Cottages for Seniors: $42,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Friendship Paddle: $42,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Bowl Foundation: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGanna Walska Lotusland: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTransition House: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSurgical Eye Expeditions International Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Maritime Museum: $20,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMontecito Trails Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAll Seated in a Barn: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Santa Barbara Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLeading from Within: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetResqcats Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetShadows Fund Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarmony Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 21.

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 FoundationCA29.8× affinity12 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 · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Www Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Robert & Christine Emmons 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.

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About Pajadoro Family Foundation

How much does Pajadoro Family Foundation give?
Pajadoro Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $208,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pajadoro Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (25%), Animals (15%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
Who are Pajadoro Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Santa Barbara Police Foundation ($140k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($125k), Vna Health Foundation ($45k).
Does Pajadoro Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pajadoro Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pajadoro Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation.
Where is Pajadoro Family Foundation based?
Pajadoro Family 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 35 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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