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Schlinger 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$3.2MEducation$2.0MHealth$1.9MAnimals$1.2MArts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$713kReligion$706kRecreation & Sports$520kOther$0
02FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $797k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PRENTICE SCHOOL$300,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$250,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER$150,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$100,000
AIDS SERVICES FOUNDATION ORANGE COUNTY$100,000
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$100,000
SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS$100,000
CHOC FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION$100,000
GIANT COMMUNITY FUND$75,000
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CHILD ABUSE ASSESSME$53,000
ROCK HOUSE CHURCH$51,500
ONEOC$50,000
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $354k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $22k → 11%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $25k → 10%SANDBOX GROUP INC: $2k → 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NURTURING CENTER INC: $20k → 11%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $20k → 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $15k → 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $9k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN HOME AND SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $30k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS: $12k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $20k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $15k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%PATRIOTS AND PAWS: $20k → 10%SOLVANG FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $15k → 14%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 10%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 10%OASIS INC: $15k → 14%PARENTIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 105 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

105 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
78

Total granted

$12M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+16%

Still filing today

93%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $559k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +92%
  • TP
    The Prentice School
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
  • SS
    SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $733k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • SP
    STEPHEN PROUSE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WU
    WALLEYES UNLIMITED OF MONTANAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • CP
    CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +46%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
3
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

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.

Animals
4
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

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.

Environment
5
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
6
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County

We conserve and care for the diverse wildlands, farms, and ranches of the central coast. we connect people to the land and to each other.

Environment
7
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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8
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
9
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

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…

Environment
10
Point Lobos Foundation

To protect and nurture point lobos state natural reserve, to educate and inspire visitors to preserve its unique natural and cultural resources, and to strengthen the network of Carmel area state parks.

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11
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
12
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc; the most unlike its peers is Regenitech Fund Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

181 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 181 of the 208 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/181
Grantees still filing
127/181
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT USA INC: $470,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCAIDS Services Foundation Orange County: $380,000 · OtherAIDS Services Foundation Orange CountySOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $225,000 · OtherYORBA LINDA FRIENDS CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $260,000 · OtherONEOC: $200,000 · OtherWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherOCEAN INSTITUTE: $225,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY: $250,000 · Other+96 more: $3,257,045 · Other+96 moreThe Prentice School: $1,202,355 · EducationThe Prentice S…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER…PEABODY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $117,500 · EducationPEABODY CHARTE…WALLEYES UNLIMITED OF MONTANA: $100,000 · Education+12 more: $274,000 · Education+12 moreLIVING DESERT THE: $525,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT …THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $110,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER …Friends of Harbors Beaches and Parks Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Har…CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $97,500 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $92,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $90,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentSANTA YNEZ VALLEY BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $63,500 · Environment+22 more: $655,500 · Environment+22 moreST JUDE HOSPITAL: $600,000 · HealthST JUDE HO…CHOC FOUNDATION: $400,000 · HealthCHOC FOUND…Mission Plasticos: $100,000 · HealthMission Pl…ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $90,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'…AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $60,000 · HealthGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $55,500 · Health+6 more: $85,500 · Health+6 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $1,211,500 · Crime & LegalENVIRONMEN…ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Crime & LegalEDDIE NASH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $46,000 · Crime & LegalSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $733,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPH…MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $200,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY …FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $85,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS O…+7 more: $143,000 · Animals+7 moreSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $475,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstro…ACOMPAS INC DBA FLAMENCO SANTA BARBARA: $151,500 · Arts & CultureACOMPAS I…SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BAR…SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BAR…SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL COAST STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $255,600 · Arts & Culture+15 more
Other$5,667,045Education$1,893,855Environment$1,863,500Health$1,391,000Crime & Legal$1,362,500Animals$1,161,000Arts & Culture$1,157,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $1,211,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetThe Prentice School: $1,202,355 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $733,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $525,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $475,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $470,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAIDS Services Foundation Orange County: $380,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $260,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY OUTREACH: $225,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONEOC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetACOMPAS INC DBA FLAMENCO SANTA BARBARA: $151,500 over 5y, 39% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $133,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPEABODY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $117,500 over 3y, 47% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start: $115,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $105,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWALLEYES UNLIMITED OF MONTANA: $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of Harbors Beaches and Parks Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetMission Plasticos: $100,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $97,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $95,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $92,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $90,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $87,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPARROW'S NEST OF NW MT: $85,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $85,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $75,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $63,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPage Youth Center: $60,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetKINGDOM MEN'S GATHERING INC: $60,000 over 1y, 26% of budget
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.

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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Mosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…Www FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Rudi Schulte Family F…Orange County Communi…The Kirby-Jones Found…Brittingham Family Fo…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA78.6× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Www Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schlinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schlinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Schlinger Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Schlinger Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 208 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home