· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of PRESTON B & MAURINE M HOTCHKIS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $22,500 |
| LOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ WILDLAND ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| VIKING CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| K9 FOR WARRIORS | $10,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $8,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $8,000 |
| THE GOAT INITIATIVE | $7,500 |
| SANTA YNEZ PIRATE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| RETRIEVERS & FRIENDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MAKE YOUTH SPORTS GREAT AGAIN | $5,000 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $4,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY BOYS BASEBELL LEAGUE INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- PLPacific Legal Foundation5× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +136%
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS5× · 2021–2025 · $41k · revenue +75%
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- ULUS LACROSSE INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- NHNEW HARMONY FIRE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · 25% of their budget
- DADisabled American Veteransone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
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.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
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…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pasadena Christian School. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RETRIEVERS AND FRIENDS OF SO CALIF INC ↗
- Who funds Criminal Justice Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Warfighter Made ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOS OLIVOS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE HEARTBEAT ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds US LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HARMONY FIRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds VIKING CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ PIRATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds South Bay Wildlife Rehab and Educ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
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: 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
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 Preston B & Maurine M Hotchkis Family 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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