· Private foundation
The Corwin D Denney 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 $10k35 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $475k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC | $100,000 |
| CASA SERENA INC | $65,000 |
| DALAI LAMA CENTER FOR ETHICS | $55,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $41,750 |
| COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES | $30,000 |
| MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION | $28,250 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| LOS ANGELES TRIAL LAWYERS' CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| YOSEMITE FOUNDATION (DBA YOSEMITIE CONSERVANCY) | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 19 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles6× · 2017–2022 · $631k · revenue +78%
- NDNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +7%
- CSCasa Serena7× · 2018–2024 · $184k · revenue +443%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR THE NEW ECONOMYone grant, 2017 · $100k
- SJST JOHN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- TMTHE MUSIC CENTERone grant, 2017 · $30k
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…
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.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
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…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
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,…
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…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dordick Trial College 2 Corp. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 174 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 Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casa Serena ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES TRIAL LAWYERS' CHARITIES A CA NON PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE DALAI LAMA CENTER FOR ETHICS AND TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER WATCHDOG ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA 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 · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Stone Family 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 Corwin D Denney 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.