California · Public charity
Santa Ynez Valley Foundation
The SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FOUNDATION partners with the community to enhance the quality of life in the santa ynez valley and los alamos.
- $387k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $246k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Santa Ynez Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $246k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $252k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $138k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $256k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $52k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $131k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Ynez Valley Senior Citizens Foundation | $251,400 | 8 | 6% |
| Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People | $163,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council | $131,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Solvang Theaterfest Inc | $120,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Syv Fruit & Vegetable Rescue | $99,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Atterdag at Home Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation | $39,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Olivos Rotary Club Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 26% |
| Bethania Evangelical Lutheran Church | $31,000 | 2 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Santa Ynez Valley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr
How this is measured
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About Santa Ynez Valley Foundation
- How much does Santa Ynez Valley Foundation give?
- Santa Ynez Valley Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $246,100, out of $386,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Santa Ynez Valley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (43%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Santa Ynez Valley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Santa Ynez Valley Senior Citizens Foundation ($251k), Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People ($164k), Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council ($132k).
- Does Santa Ynez Valley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Santa Ynez Valley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is Santa Ynez Valley Foundation based?
- Santa Ynez Valley Foundation is based in CA.
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