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Schafer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLD SPANISH DAYS - FIESTA | $500 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $500 |
| POBRES | $500 |
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 (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 EQUESTRIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +56%
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY2× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +179%
- HTHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CRCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +89%
- GOGOLETA OLD TOWN CHRISTMAS PARADEone grant, 2020 · $1k
- OTOLD TOWN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 mission of the san benito agricultural land trust is to conserve regionally significant lands that sustain productive agriculture, preserve open space, and maintain the rural character of the county.
The following three guiding principles are the foundation for all of the santa barbara museum of natural history's activities: inspiring an awe for nature and a thirst for discovery; promoting sustainability; and connecting our…
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
To educate the public and preserve the history of the santa ynez valley.
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.
Providing horse based therapy for handicapped and developmentally disabled adults and children.
The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
The mission of the land trust is to preserve agriculture and other working lands and open space in santa clara valley and adjacent areas.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
Our mission is to steward the past and present of the presidio neighborhood and inspire preservation advocacy throughout the county in order to create a more vibrant community. we do this by operating el presidio de santa barbara historic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rangeland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 27 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 CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY EQUESTRIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds REINS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Oshay Family Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Www Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Schafer Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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