· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $587k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANSUM SANTA BARBARA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $84,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE | $52,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCIEROSIS ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE LISTENING MEDIATION | $50,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA | $50,000 |
| PBS OF SOCAL (KCET) | $50,000 |
| STANDING TOGETHER | $50,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY - GRAZIADIO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $50,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $50,000 |
| WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| SCTC MARINE BIOLOGY EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +58%
- HOHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC7× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +52%
- CICALM INC7× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- COCollege of the Desert Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +101%
- PHPIH Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 50 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds The Blind Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds DR SUSAN LOVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ROD AND REEL CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIH Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thatcher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thatcher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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