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The Corwin D Denney Foundation at a glance

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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.

$900k
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MEducation$446kPublic Safety & Disaster$279kArts & Culture$263kInternational$261kCrime & Legal$247kHousing & Shelter$230kEnvironment$141kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
$7,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DIGNITY MOVES$30,000
MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$30,000
MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION$28,250
LOS ANGELES TRIAL LAWYERS' CHARITIES$25,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$25,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$20,000
ANERA$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALIGN MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $3k → 13%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $6k → 17%FAYETTE COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 15%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $10k → 9%OPERATION HELPING HANDS: $500 → 10%ORANGE COUNTY TRIAL LAWYERS CHARITIES: $10k → 10%HOMEFRONT AMERICA: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%HOMEFRONT AMERICA: $1k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PROVIDENCE TRINITY CARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $3k → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $28k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $10k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $10k → 14%SHELTER BOX USA: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 88 repeat orgs$636k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
65

Total granted

$3.6M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    6× · 2017–2022 · $631k · revenue +78%
  • CS
    Casa Serena
    7× · 2018–2024 · $184k · revenue +443%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE NEW ECONOMY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TM
    THE MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
4
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
5
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
California Institute for BioMedical Research

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…

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8
The California Wildlife Center

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,…

Health
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
10
The California Channel

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…

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11
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

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.

Environment
12
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

132 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/132
Grantees still filing
100/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $630,750 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $195,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUND…Casa Serena: $184,000 · HealthCasa SerenaSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDAT…MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Health+16 more: $82,312 · Health+16 moreCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $229,000 · OtherCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR THE NEW ECONOMY: $100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE NEW ECONOMYYMCA OF GREATER LONG BEACH: $68,010 · OtherBLUE RIBBON MUSIC CENTER: $62,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $57,500 · OtherTHE DALAI LAMA CENTER FOR ETHICS AND TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES INC: $80,000 · Other+111 more: $1,076,357 · Other+111 morePEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE …WESTMONT COLLEGE: $107,500 · EducationWESTMONT CO…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $55,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY…CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC: $40,000 · EducationCENTER FOR …LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationMiami University Foundation: $15,000 · Education+6 more: $26,250 · Education+6 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $82,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $48,875 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $30,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $20,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $12,500 · InternationalASYLUM ACCESS: $12,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $11,500 · International+2 more: $11,500 · InternationalTRANSITION HOUSE: $112,750 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterDIGNITYMOVES: $45,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $7,250 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES TRIAL LAWYERS' CHARITIES A CA NON PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP: $173,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA: $27,975 · Philanthropy+3 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureSTATE STREET BALLET: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,750 · Arts & Culture
Health$1,272,062Other$1,673,367Education$423,750International$279,375Housing & Shelter$226,000Philanthropy$203,975Arts & Culture$160,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $630,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCasa Serena: $184,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES TRIAL LAWYERS' CHARITIES A CA NON PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORP: $173,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $112,750 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $107,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $82,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALAI LAMA CENTER FOR ETHICS AND TRANSFORMATIVE VALUES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $61,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $57,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $48,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $47,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $43,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $39,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS: $33,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER WATCHDOG: $28,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $28,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA: $27,975 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAD CAMP INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY DOGGO: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALM INC: $13,437 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASYLUM ACCESS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadera County Food Bank: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE STREET BALLET: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNational Council for Adoption: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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 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 THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Williams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…James S Bower Foundat…Towbes FoundationPatricia Bragg Founda…California Community …Latkin Charitable Fou…Stone Family Foundati…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA49× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Corwin D Denney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Corwin D Denney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 174 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home