· Private foundation
Priory Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
- $250k+1 grant · $483k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $483,000 |
| FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS | $110,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE INC | $50,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS & BUSINESS AWARD FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONETRIERS USA | $25,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA | $24,000 |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS YOUNG MENS | $10,000 |
| CALM | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- FFFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $910k · revenue +2%
- CICALM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $260k · revenue +28%
- CHCottage Health2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +32%
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +8%- BABUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTREone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -26%
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 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…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
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.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Human Rights and Business Award Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds Cottage Health ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CONGREGATIONAL TRAUMA AND GROWTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Human Rights and Business Award Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTICLE3ORG ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Towbes Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Wm Brian & Judith A Little Charitable Trust · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Zegar Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation
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 Priory Fund 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.