· Private foundation
The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER | $14,500 |
| MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATON | $6,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $5,400 |
| QPLUS COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| SANSUM CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CITY YEAR- LOS ANGLELES | $5,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATER | $3,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER-PALO ALTO | $3,048 |
| EDEN REFORESTATION PROJECTS | $3,015 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,750 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| DIAMOND PEAK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +45% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +57%
DIRECT RELIEF9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +94%- RHROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- GCGLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TATHE ABILITY EXPERIENCEone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +25%
- SBSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCEone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -88%
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 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…
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The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Live Like Ally 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 125 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 CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONSERVATION FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Kindred Films Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY LACROSSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHIL SIMON CLINIC TANZANIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
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 · California Community Foundation · Manitou Fund · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Corwin D Denney Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy 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 Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.