· Private foundation
Santos Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTOS FAMILY DONOR ADVICED FUND | $551,828 |
| SANTOS FAMILY DONOR ADVICED FUND | $34,917 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| CAPE VERDEAN RECOGNITION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| UCI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY YOUTH BASEBALL INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $599k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +127%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +181%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- MHMISSION HOSPITAL LEONARD CANCERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SMSANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +29%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 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
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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE VERDEAN RECOGNITION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTIAGO MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE CHANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Trauma Intervention Programs Inc ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Santos Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Santos Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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