· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $246,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $386,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $140,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SYV SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $39,600 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FRUIT & VEG | $31,500 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $22,500 |
| SYV SENIOR ADVISORY COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| BETHANIA LUTHERAN CHURCH | $16,000 |
| ATTERDAG AT HOME | $15,000 |
| SYV COTTAGE HOSPITAL FDN | $12,000 |
| LOS OLIVOS ROTARY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BA | $10,000 |
| UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| ST MARKS CHURCH | $8,500 |
| SYV FAMILY YMCA | $7,500 |
| SYV THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM | $6,000 |
| SYV CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +230%
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE6× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +15%
- SYSanta Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council7× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
- OCOLIVE CRESTone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +23%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +15%
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.
The santa ynez valley foundation partners with the community to enhance the quality of life in the santa ynez valley and los alamos.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
Serves the santa ynez valley and surrounding communities by providing housing, care and placement services for dogs and cats available for adoption, low fee spay and neuter services and promoting humane, compassionate and conscientious…
To educate the public and preserve the history of the santa ynez valley.
Social welfare & activities
The Mission of the Symons Family Fund is to benefit, perform the functions of, and carry out the purposes of the Sonora Area Foundation that engage in charitable activities which benefit the residents of Tuolumne County, California.
Provide programs and activities for the San Lorenzo Valley community with a focus on helping seniors remain engaged and involved by promoting and supporting education, recreation, and social programs to ensure that all members of the…
The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
It is the mission of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (SYVCH) to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion. SYVCH is a…
This organization is formed for the raising and distributing of funds primarily for the benefit of charitable programs in the greater santa ynez valley area of santa barbara county, california. specifically but not limited to educational…
Promotion and improvement of conditions in local real estate industry
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Los Alamos Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 30 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 SANTA YNEZ VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council ↗
- Who funds SOLVANG THEATERFEST INC ↗
- Who funds SYV FRUIT & VEGETABLE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATTERDAG AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Los Olivos Rotary Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ALAMOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rona Barrett Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SOLVANG LUTHERAN HOME INC ATTERDAG VILLAGE OF SOLVANG ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
- Who funds ST MARKS IN-THE-VALLEY ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: 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
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 Ynez Valley Foundation 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.
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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