· Private foundation
Rudi Schulte 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK IN | $60,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $30,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $25,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY VETERANS | $15,000 |
| FLORA VISTA ELEMENTARY PTA | $15,000 |
| JASMINE STAR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC | $10,000 |
| SOLVANG FESTIVAL THEATER | $10,000 |
| AMAZING STRAYS RESCUE | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA VETERANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARIEL THEATRICAL INC | $10,000 |
| WALDORF SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
146 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 96 since wound down; 18 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $458k · revenue +24%- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +52%
- CACHALLENGED ATHLETES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- EFENCHANGED FARM SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2020 · $35k
- IHIMPACT HUB TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +203%
- TWTHE WAHINE PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +115%
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.
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…
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
Cemetery association
To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
How this is measured
169 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 169 of the 281 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Waves Coalition ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA'S LIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW MILLENNIUM SECONDARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Adderley School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Notes For Notes Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLAS ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · Towbes Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rudi Schulte Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rudi Schulte Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Safe Boating Council Inc: 61% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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