California · Private foundation
Patricia Bragg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 77
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $94M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Patricia Bragg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $947k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 76 | $3.3M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $6.8M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $4.1M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $4.1M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $513k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $378k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $4,100,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $1,790,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Community Environmental Council | $1,515,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Unity Shoppe Inc | $590,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network | $575,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $505,000 | 2 | 1% |
| United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County | $430,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Shadows Fund Incorporated | $328,500 | 3 | 32% |
| North County Rape Crisis and Child Protection Center Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Wilderness Youth Project Inc | $282,500 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 156 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Patricia Bragg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Bragg Health Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · The B & B Foundation
How this is measured
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About Patricia Bragg Foundation
- How much does Patricia Bragg Foundation give?
- Patricia Bragg Foundation reported 77 grants totaling $3,399,130 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Patricia Bragg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Philanthropy (23%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Patricia Bragg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County ($4.1M), Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($1.8M), Community Environmental Council ($1.5M).
- Does Patricia Bragg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Patricia Bragg 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 Patricia Bragg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is Patricia Bragg Foundation based?
- Patricia Bragg Foundation is based in CA.
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