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Santa Maria Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.

Employment$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$545kEducation$207kInternational$35kEnvironment$25kCommunity Improvement$25kHealth$21kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE INSTITUTE$13,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%VILLAGE HEALTHWORKS: $20k → 17%COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST VINCENT: $100k → 28%CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $10k → 14%LEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION: $7k → 11%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $25k → 11%MULTIPLYING GOOD: $10k → 17%GRACE OUTREACH: $100k → 28%PALM BEACH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%GRACE INSTITUTE: $1.7M → 17%ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%GRACE INSTITUTE: $535k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $17k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $13k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 17%GRACE INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%FLAX TRUST: $25k → 17%SAINT JEAN DE BAPTISTE CHURCH: $20k → 17%SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA: $25k → 17%BIG LITTLES NYC MENTORING: $5k → 17%TANNENBAUM CENTER: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Grace Institute of New York Inc

Grace institute's mission is to empower underserved women in the new york area to achieve employment and economic self-sufficiency. within a supportive and structured environment, grace institute provides job-skills training, counseling,…

Employment
2
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
3
The Friends of the Graduate Institute Geneva Inc C/O Benjamin Butcher
Education
4
Pathways Togo Inc

Pathways togo, inc.'s mission is to advance the education of women and girls in togo through educational assistance in the form of scholarships, life skills, training and mentoring. by helping women fulfill their potential, pathways seeks…

Education
5
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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6
Gratitude Global

Working through social entrepreneurs to impact the lives of children globally. the gratitude network seeks out the worlds most dynamic and innovative leaders and organizations impacting the lives of children and youth for competitive…

Philanthropy
7
Path to Jobs Inc (Fka Peer Training Inc/Pti)

Path to jobs, inc. is a workforce development and job placement organization with a mission to provide personalized career-readiness skills training, coaching, case management, benefits counseling, support to enter/re-enter the workforce,…

Employment
8
Progress for Good Inc

To equip entrepreneurs from under resourced communities to grow businesses and invest in social causes they care about.

Education
9
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
10
Leadership Training Inc

Leadership training institute (lti) is a notforprofit 501(c)(3)organization dedicated to empowering challenged families and children to overcome barriers, tap potential and achieve success through education, mentoring and social justice…

Human Services
11
Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative -Us D/B/a Tony Blair Foundation

The tony blair africa governance initiative-us (tbagi) received permission from the nys attorney general to operate under the assumed name the tony blair foundation (tbf.) on december 28, 2016, a certificate of merger, effective january 1,…

Animals
12
Princeton in Africa Inc

Princeton in africa, inc. is a private nonprofit organization which seeks to help future leaders develop lifelong connections to the people and nations of africa. the organization offers highly selective yearlong fellowships to recent…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multiplying Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shalom Centre of Africa Co Nucor Construction. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRACE INSTITUTE — $2,236,749 · OtherGRACE INSTITUTEGRACE O'DONNELL FUND - FIDELITY CHA — $500,000 · OtherGRACE O'DONNELL FUND - FIDELITY CHAPETER MARGIE GRACE CHARITABLE FD — $500,000 · OtherPETER MARGIE GRACE CHARITABLE FDGRACE SHETHAR CHARITABLE FUND - SCH — $500,000 · OtherGRACE SHETHAR CHARITABLE FUND - SCHIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+8 more — $186,000 · OtherGRACE OUTREACH INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE FLAX TRUSTAMERICA — $25,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA CO NUCOR CONSTRUCTION — $25,000 · InternationalVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $20,000 · InternationalFriends of Acadia — $25,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC — $6,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PALM BEACH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,422,749Education$100,000International$70,000Environment$25,000Philanthropy$16,500Arts & Culture$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRACE INSTITUTE — $2,236,749 over 2y, 60% of budgetGRACE OUTREACH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FLAX TRUSTAMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE SHALOM CENTRE OF AFRICA CO NUCOR CONSTRUCTION — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERS IN FURTHERING EDUCATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sarita Kenedy East Fo…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Sarita Kenedy East Foundation IncNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sarita Kenedy East Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Santa Maria Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Santa Maria Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Santa Maria Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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