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Patricia Bragg Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$8.8MPhilanthropy$5.2MHuman Services$2.3MAnimals$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$839kYouth Development$645kHealth$535kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $725k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$250,000
SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS$250,000
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$132,500
MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER$100,000
CALM$100,000
SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL$100,000
UNITY SHOPPE INC$100,000
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK$100,000
STANDING TOGETHER TO END SEXUAL ASSAULT$100,000
NORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS & CHILD PROTECTION CENTER$100,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$100,000
NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER$100,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$100,000
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST$85,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MICHAEL P NOSCO FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%BIG CAT RESCUE: $15k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $75k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $50k → 14%CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $3k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 14%CUYAMA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $25k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $150k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $140k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $100k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $100k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER: $25k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

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HI
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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 65 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
97

Total granted

$15M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+32%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TL
    THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +167%
  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
  • CE
    COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • C
    CEC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CO
    CASA OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • HA
    HAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +69%
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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
3
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
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
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

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

Animals
6
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
9
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
10
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
11
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…

Environment
12
Ventana Wilderness Alliance

The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Ace of Hearts. 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

152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 203 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/152
Grantees still filing
98/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $4,100,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARB…COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,515,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNC…WINDWARD FUND: $300,000 · Environment+17 more: $986,880 · Environment+17 moreSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $5,197,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATI…+5 more: $60,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCEC: $1,000,000 · OtherCECNORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS AND CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $300,000 · OtherUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $505,000 · OtherUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $430,000 · OtherUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF…Wilderness Youth Project Inc: $282,500 · Other+98 more: $3,076,373 · Other+98 moreFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $1,790,000 · Food & NutritionORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $190,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $90,000 · Food & NutritionSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $575,000 · AnimalsSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $328,500 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc: $275,000 · AnimalsAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $150,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $100,000 · Animals+26 more: $537,000 · AnimalsUNITY SHOPPE INC: $590,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $250,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $200,000 · Human ServicesNBCC: $200,000 · Human ServicesChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $127,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $100,000 · Human ServicesCUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 · Human Services+9 more: $146,000 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $250,000 · HealthSARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA: $225,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $200,000 · HealthStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $100,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $85,000 · HealthSAVIE HEALTH: $50,000 · HealthFIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY: $40,000 · Health+9 more: $160,000 · Health
Environment$6,901,880Philanthropy$5,257,500Other$7,093,873Food & Nutrition$2,070,000Animals$1,965,500Human Services$1,773,500Health$1,110,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 FOUNDATION: $5,197,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $4,100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $1,790,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,515,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $590,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $575,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $505,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $430,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $328,500 over 3y, 32% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS AND CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $300,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $282,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY: $225,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA: $225,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $218,750 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $210,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST: $204,100 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $200,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNBCC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $190,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $175,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $170,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $150,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $127,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALM INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $116,780 over 4y, 11% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCalifornia Institute for Biodiversity: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJODI HOUSE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $65,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRESQCATS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $54,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $51,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Williams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…June G Outhwaite Char…Bragg Health Foundati…Mosher FoundationManitou FundJames S Bower Foundat…Towbes FoundationThe B & B Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA93.7× affinity50 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 · 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
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 Patricia Bragg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia Bragg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Patricia Bragg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia Bragg 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 203 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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