California · Private foundation
The Cappello Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $315k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,121
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Cappello Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $315k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $109k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $233k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $615k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $319k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $491k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation | $207,660 | 5 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation | $10,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Disaster Search Dog Foundation | $7,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Doberman Pinscher Rescue | $7,280 | 6 | 0% |
| The Gentle Barn Foundation | $5,650 | 8 | 0% |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cavaliers AP&E Inc | $2,121 | 1 | 0% |
| Bella and Sunshine Rescue Inc | $2,011 | 1 | 2% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cappello Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cappello Foundation
- How much does The Cappello Foundation give?
- The Cappello Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $314,632 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Cappello Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (86%), Education (10%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are The Cappello Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation ($208k), Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation ($10k), Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp ($10k).
- Does The Cappello Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cappello Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cappello Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Cappello Foundation based?
- The Cappello Foundation is based in CA.
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