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Pajadoro Family Foundation at a glance

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Pajadoro Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$34,000
SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION$25,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA$25,000
FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$10,000
TRANSITION HOUSE$10,000
VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE$10,000
LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS$10,000
SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION$9,000
SHADOW'S FUND$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$5,000
SANTA BARBARA NAVY LEAGUE$5,000
K9 PALS$5,000
ALL SEATED IN A BARN$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 10%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%ALL SEATED IN A BARN: $5k → 18%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PAULING INS: $5k → 18%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%ALL SEATED IN A BARN: $5k → 18%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SB HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%SB HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%SB HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%SB HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%SB HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA NAVY LEAGUE: $50k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $34k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $25k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $25k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $25k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $20k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $20k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $15k → 14%SANTA BARBARA NAVY LEAGUE: $11k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $10k → 14%LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS: $10k → 14%LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $10k → 14%LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $10k → 14%TRANSITION HOUSE: $10k → 14%TRANSITION HOUSE: $10k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $9k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Pajadoro Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 88%.

Pajadoro Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 27 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
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Total granted

$1.0M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+163%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsCrime & LegalInternationalEnvironmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +136%
  • LC
    LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +13%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTER ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • RI
    RESQCATS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +163%
  • HP
    Harmony Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +71%
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 Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
3
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
4
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
5
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
6
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Health
7
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.

Animals
8
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

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

Philanthropy
9
Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc

To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.

Animals
10
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission

The santa barbara rescue mission is a ministry of christian people bringing physical, emotional, educational and spiritual resources to all who struggle with homelessness and addiction.

Housing & Shelter
11
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
Santa Barbara Historical Museum

To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.

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 Pacific Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEA: $150,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEASANTA BARBARA NAVY LEAGUE: $85,500 · OtherSANTA BARBARA NAVY LEAGUESB HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherSB HUMANE SOCIETYGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $30,000 · OtherK9 PALS: $27,500 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL: $27,500 · OtherDAWG: $20,000 · OtherHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $30,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $20,000 · Other+16 more: $127,500 · Other+16 moreSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Crime & LegalSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUND…Pacific Legal Foundation: $125,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal FoundationTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $42,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $34,000 · PhilanthropyLAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS: $42,500 · Housing & ShelterTRANSITION HOUSE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterDIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 · InternationalSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $41,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$568,000Crime & Legal$265,000Philanthropy$76,000Housing & Shelter$62,500International$60,000Health$45,000Recreation & Sports$41,000

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

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 budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 1y, 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA COTTAGES FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALL SEATED IN A BARN ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds Leading from Within ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RESQCATS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗

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…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Patricia Bragg Founda…Www FoundationBrittingham Family Fo…Mosher FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Williams-Corbett Foun…Manitou FundThe Robert & Christin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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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