· Private foundation
The Boss 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & EXPRESSION | $5,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $5,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| TGR FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA | $3,000 |
| SANSUM CLINIC | $2,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| 805 UNDOCUFUND | $2,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES | $1,000 |
| MISSION SCHOLARS | $1,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $500 |
| CLUBBED THUMB | $500 |
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 (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA6× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +70%
- CTClubbed Thumb Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +161%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FUFordham Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $263k · revenue +31%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- AIASPEN INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 Fordham University ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Scholars ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds 805 UNDOCUFUND ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montecito Community Foundation ↗
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: The John C Mithun Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Boss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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