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Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family 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.

$150k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,500
Organizations funded a year
16 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
Crime & LegalRecreation & SportsEducationHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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 arriving15$128k53%
FY202417$112k24%
FY202318$108k33%
FY202219$120k11%
FY202119$111k32%
FY202016$91k13%
FY201917$63k24%
FY201827$89k19%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$426kEducation$259kArts & Culture$134kCrime & Legal$90kHealth$78kAnimals$72kRecreation & Sports$58kHuman Services$44kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

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

Show all 49 grantees
All grantees of Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation$128,50091%
Pacific Legal Foundation$46,00050%
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics$40,50050%
Phillips Exeter Academy$40,00080%
Retrievers and Friends of So Calif Inc$35,00082%
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation$30,00071%
Warfighter Made$27,50042%
Midland School Corporation$26,00060%
Greater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association$25,00031%
Storm King Art Center$21,50060%
Los Olivos School Foundation$21,00057%
Transition House$20,50030%
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation$20,00040%
Save the Heartbeat$18,00068%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$16,50040%
US Lacrosse Inc$15,00010%
Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy$15,00041%
K9s for Warriors Inc$10,0001n/a
Disabled American Veterans$10,00010%
New Harmony Fire Association$10,000125%
Viking Charities Inc$10,0001n/a
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc$10,00020%
Santa Ynez Wildland Association$10,0001n/a
Fallen Watermans Foundation$8,5003n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$8,00020%
The Goat Initiative$7,5001n/a
Santa Ynez Pirate Foundation$7,50011%
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County$7,50030%
South Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ$6,00025%
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research$6,00020%
Steadman Philippon Research Institute$5,00020%
Unity Shoppe Inc$5,00010%
Montecito Trails Foundation$5,00051%
University of California Santa Barbara$3,0001n/a
Cheer for Children Inc$3,00015%
Sing for America Foundation$3,00021%
Pasadena Christian School$2,50010%
Santa Ynez Valley Boys Baseball League Inc$2,50012%
Autry Museum of the American West$2,5001n/a
American Prairie Foundation$2,00020%
Chp 11-99 Foundation$2,0001n/a
Polytechnic School$2,00020%
Pasadena Police Foundation$1,50013%
International City Theatre$1,50010%
Canine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary$1,00010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Musicares Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Legacies Alive$1,00011%
California State Sheriffs Association$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRancho Los Alamitos Foundation: $128,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Neighborhood Clinics: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRetrievers and Friends of So Calif Inc: $35,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCriminal Justice Legal Foundation: $30,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWarfighter Made: $27,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMidland School Corporation: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Santa Barbara Ice Skating Association: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetStorm King Art Center: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLos Olivos School Foundation: $21,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTransition House: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSave the Heartbeat: $18,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUS Lacrosse Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArroyos & Foothills Conservancy: $15,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Harmony Fire Association: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCommunity Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Pirate Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ: $6,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSteadman Philippon Research Institute: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontecito Trails Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCheer for Children Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSing for America Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPasadena Christian School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Boys Baseball League Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Prairie Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPolytechnic School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Police Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetInternational City Theatre: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusicares Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacies Alive: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia State Sheriffs Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 41.

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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.

Elizabeth Bixby Janeway FoundationCA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Www Foundation · California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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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About Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation

How much does Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation give?
Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation ($129k), Pacific Legal Foundation ($46k), Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics ($41k).
Does Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family 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 Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
Where is Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family Foundation based?
Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family 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 73 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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