· Private foundation
Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PARS EQUALITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA ZOO | $8,000 |
| ROQUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| WHALES OF GUERRERO | $5,000 |
| WORLD DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| REONE805 | $3,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CARRIAGE & WESTERN MUSEUM | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 20 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +96%
- SBSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +87%
- PEPARS EQUALITY CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- USUNITY SHOPPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +49%
- TFTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +133%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 170 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds FRANKFURT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY - US INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Child Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GANGAJI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WORLDBEING INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Heffernan Group Foundation · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Maslow Project: 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Rogue Retreat: 12% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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