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Peter Douglas 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE INC | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| SANCTUARY CENTERS OF SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION DONOR SERVICES | $100,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| GERVITZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| THE STORYTELLERS CHILDRENS CENTER | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $397k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Peter Douglas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +174%
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $395k · revenue +44%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $375k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- NGNEW GROTENHUIS PEDIATRIC MULTI-SPECIALTY CLINICone grant, 2024 · $250k
- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +17%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Rona Barrett Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Rona Barrett Foundation ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Peter Douglas Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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