· Private foundation
The Armand Hammer Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $250k+1 grant · $774k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $773,656 |
| NASHVILLE LIFE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WORLD MISSIONS GROUP | $15,000 |
| CHRIST HOLY SANCTIFIED CHURCH OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| DENNIS TINERINO MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE TRANSFORMING CENTER | $5,000 |
| RIDGEVIEW HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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
- PAPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $352k · revenue +116%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +30%
- ACARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SB COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $69k
- BMBUD Ministries Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +160%
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.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
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…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Apu is an evangelical christian community of disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of god through academic excellence in liberal arts and professional programs of higher education that encourage development of a christian…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
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.…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County and the most unlike its peers is Project Seven Institute. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUD Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Montecito Motor Classic ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS EAGLES BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSFORMING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AVOCADO FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds KEITH HUDSON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SEVEN INSTITUTE ↗
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 · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher 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 The Armand Hammer Foundation 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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