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The Desantis 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$571kPhilanthropy$281kCivil Rights$107kHuman Services$37kEnvironment$34kHealth$24kRecreation & Sports$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$21,000
RFK HUMAN RIGHTS$18,933
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE$10,000
LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL$5,000
SANTA BARBARA VOLLEYBALL CLUB$5,000
SANTA BARBARA SOUTH COAST FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION$2,000
THE ART OF ELYSIUM$1,250
CLEVELAND CLINIC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A BRIDGE FOR KIDS: $100 → 11%WALK WITH SALLY: $5k → 14%HARRISON GREENBERG MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SKECHERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
RI
CA
VA
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AR
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GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$947k · 14 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
40

Total granted

$947k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

64%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HS
    HILLBROOK SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $462k · revenue +87%
  • LB
    LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +3%
  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • OI
    ONE805 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • HG
    HARRISON GREENBERG MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -74%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
4
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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8
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
9
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
10
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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11
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
12
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College

The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shirts Across America. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Fallen First Responder Supp…Professional Ballet Compani…United Way FederationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Christian Youth CampsAt-Risk Youth MentoringEducation Equity LeadershipCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersVeteran Support ServicesPublic School District Foun…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%74%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,931

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLBROOK SCHOOL — $461,500 · EducationHILLBROOK SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW Y…LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $31,519 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL+6 more — $28,200 · EducationNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $147,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONTHE NUEVA FUND — $80,000 · OtherTHE NUEVA FUNDROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $69,525 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN…RFK HUMAN RIGHTS — $37,883 · OtherRFK HUMAN RIGHTSRICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER — $28,500 · OtherRICHSTONE FAMILY CENTERGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $20,736 · Other+25 more — $72,570 · Other+25 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 · PhilanthropyCENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO — $7,248 · Philanthropy+5 more — $5,259 · PhilanthropyHARRISON GREENBERG MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesWALK WITH SALLY — $5,000 · Human ServicesSKECHERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesONE805 INC — $10,401 · Public Safety & DisasterSANTA BARBARA SOUTH COAST FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSpikes K9 Fund — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOOD — $500 · Public Safety & DisasterJIMMY MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentNatureServe — $3,000 · EnvironmentWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $5,000 · HealthCUREBOUND — $1,218 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500 · Health+2 more — $450 · Health
Education$571,219Other$456,214Philanthropy$54,507Human Services$17,600Public Safety & Disaster$13,901Environment$13,000Health$12,168

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLBROOK SCHOOL — $461,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $69,525 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL — $31,519 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $20,736 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetONE805 INC — $10,401 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISON GREENBERG MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLOS GATOS HIGH SCHOOL NEW MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJIMMY MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO — $7,248 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Volleyball Club — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWALK WITH SALLY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTorrance Memorial Medical Center Health Care Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation of La Jolla High School Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE STREET BALLET — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNatureServe — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSKECHERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $1,850 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $1,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC — $1,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCUREBOUND — $1,218 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPS I Love You Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALL IN ALL THE TIME — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT BIOME INC — $849 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREWORK FOUNDATION — $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $513 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN P BURKE MEMORIAL FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BRIDGE FOR KIDS — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…Macdonald Family Foun…Mosher FoundationManitou FundMorrison Institute fo…The Arnold & Jill Bel…G a Fowler Family Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Sempra Foundation
California Community FoundationCA20× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · Morrison Institute for Decentralism · The Arnold & Jill Bellowe Family Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sempra 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 Desantis 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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