California · Private foundation
Thatcher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $962k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $84,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Thatcher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $962k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $853k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $903k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $943k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $838k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $850k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $950k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College | $343,750 | 7 | 1% |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc | $300,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Calm Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County | $210,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara | $195,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation | $190,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Family YMCA of the Desert | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thatcher Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Crawford Idema Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Thatcher Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Thatcher 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.
About Thatcher Foundation
- How much does Thatcher Foundation give?
- Thatcher Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $962,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Thatcher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Thatcher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($350k), The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College ($344k), Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc ($300k).
- Does Thatcher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thatcher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thatcher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is Thatcher Foundation based?
- Thatcher Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Thatcher’s filings →