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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$27M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Peter Douglas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$1.1M15%
FY202413$885k62%
FY202310$700k40%
FY20229$780k22%
FY202111$266k45%
FY20206$180k17%
FY20196$103k17%
FY201810$163k50%
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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 2025.

Education$1.8MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$395kHuman Services$387kArts & Culture$161kAnimals$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kInternational$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peter Douglas Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara: $455,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $395,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUc Santa Barbara Foundation: $375,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $372,100 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $350,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLaguna Blanca School: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $72,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia Lutheran University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Firefighters Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVna Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara County Sheriff's Benevolent Posse: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Rona Barrett Foundation: $10,010 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNavy-Marine Corps Relief Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Louis Stevenson School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Museum of Natural History: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation: $1,000 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 24.

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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.

Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Peter Douglas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peter Douglas 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.

About Peter Douglas Foundation

How much does Peter Douglas Foundation give?
Peter Douglas Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,050,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Peter Douglas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (33%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Peter Douglas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara ($455k), Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($395k), Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($375k).
Does Peter Douglas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peter Douglas 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 Peter Douglas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
Where is Peter Douglas Foundation based?
Peter Douglas 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 39 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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