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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UCLA FOUNDATIONSCHOOL OF LAW | $150,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATIONSCHOOL OF LAW | $150,000 |
| GREEN BRIGADE AT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE CAVALIERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS | $2,121 |
| BELLA AND SUNSHINE RESCUE | $2,011 |
| DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE | $1,500 |
| THE GENTLE BARN | $1,000 |
| DONKEY LAND | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LCLambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation5× · 2017–2022 · $208k · revenue +142%
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +54%
- NDNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +391%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- COCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abusegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +86%
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 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.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
It is Spark Rescue's mission to rescue, rehabilitate, medically treat, spay and neuter unwanted dogs and cats and place them into permanent homes. To prevent future un wanted litters we spay the mother of the litter being surrendered. We…
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
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…
Domestic violence solutions of santa barbara county is dedicated to providing safe harbor to all victims of domestic violence and their children throughout santa barbara county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc. 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 13. 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 1% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 Lambda Chi Alpha Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOBERMAN PINSCHER RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds THE CAVALIERS AP&E INC ↗
- Who funds Bella and Sunshine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds JODI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
- Who funds DonkeyLand ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LANAI BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
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 · 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
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 Cappello 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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