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The B & B 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SB NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICSADMIN OFFICE | $10,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WORLD DANCE FOR HUMANITY | $7,750 |
| SANTA BARBARA PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SLO COUNTIES | $7,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $6,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENATTN DONOR SERV TEAM | $6,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $6,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| RILEY'S URGENT FUND FOR FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE CENTER | $5,000 |
| KIDWORKS | $5,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $5,000 |
| ADAM'S ANGELS | $5,000 |
| AHA | $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 (FY21–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 17 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +75%
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +198%
- OSORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- GEGOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -24%
- UTUNITE TO LIGHT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SVST VINCENT'Sone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
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.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
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.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
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…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
La Casa de las Madres' mission is to respond to calls for help from DV victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We give survivors the tools to transform their lives. We seek to prevent future violence by educating the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County and the most unlike its peers is Wellspring Thoroughbreds. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 117 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 SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds World Dance for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Standing Together to End Sexual Assault ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds UNITE TO LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
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 · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Kirby-Jones 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 B & B 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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