· Private foundation
Rudi and Berta Schulte Angels Charitable Trust
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: 64% of RUDI AND BERTA SCHULTE ANGELS CHARITABLE TRUST’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 $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE CENTRAL COAST CHURCH | $23,700 |
| COASTLANDS CHURCH | $16,000 |
| ZONA SECA | $10,500 |
| AMERICAN EUROPEAN BETHEL MISSION | $5,500 |
| FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LOS ELEGIES MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| HEARTS ALIGNED | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SWIM CLUB | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BASEBALL PARENTS ASSOC INC | $2,000 |
| FIRST CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| OAKS PARENT-CHILD WORKSHOP | $300 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- AEAMERICAN EUROPEAN BETHEL MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +43%
- ZSZONA SECA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +51%
- CTCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CCCROSSROADS CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY YOUTH TENNISone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
To offer a competitive and experience-rich environment for young water polo players.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
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.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The purpose of the santa barbara county genealogical society (sbcgs) is to promote study and research in genealogy by providing assistance and educational opportunities for those who are interested in pursuing their family history.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
The club's mission is to help each member become the best volleyball player they can be and to support parents in guiding each player to become the best person they can be. the club is dedicated to the development of young people as…
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
To educate and support the agricultural community.
Cemetery association
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College and the most unlike its peers is Dallas Youth Athletic Association. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 87 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 AMERICAN EUROPEAN BETHEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds ZONA SECA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hearts Aligned Inc ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Swim Club ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PARTNERSHIP HOME STUDY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BASEBALL PARENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DUNN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds With God All Things Are Possible ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PREMIER WATER POLO ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
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 · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · James S Bower Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Junior League of Santa Barbara · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable 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 Rudi and Berta Schulte Angels Charitable Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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