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Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee
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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $892k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES | $325,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $235,000 |
| ANACAPA SCHOOL | $172,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY | $170,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $150,000 |
| WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $100,000 |
| OPERA SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KAVLI INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +141%
- SCSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +97%
- SBSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $967k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +13%
- YAYoung America's Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +26%
- TCTHE COLEMAN CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -57%
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 SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
The santa maria valley humane society exists to rescue, shelter, heal, place, and train dogs and cats while engaging the central california coastal community to end animal homelessness.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
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.
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.
Santa barbara wildlife care network (sbwcn) serves to rescue, rehabilitate and return to the wild sick, injured, orphaned, or oil-impaired wild birds, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals in santa barbara and ventura counties and to…
To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Tahoe Maritime Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 117 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 BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds The Anacapa School ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds KITT CRUSADERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF THE BURBANK ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- Who funds CATALINA ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUPS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE ALWAYS SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- 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 · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · California Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Www Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Brittingham Family 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 Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee 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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