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The Edgecomb Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$82k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Edgecomb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$3k50%
FY20222$5k50%
FY20217$23k29%
FY20206$31k33%
FY20198$16k38%
FY20188$30k88%
FY20177$14kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$60kHealth$42kArts & Culture$6kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$850Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Edgecomb Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chapman University$37,00040%
Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation$20,50030%
Laguna Blanca School$15,00030%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$15,00070%
Santa Barbara Equine Assistance and Evacuation Team$5,50021%
Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation$3,76010%
The Giorgio Foundation$3,50020%
911 at Ease International Inc$2,50010%
Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance$2,50010%
Original Music Workshop Inc$1,00010%
Social Skills America$1,0001n/a
Psycho Tour$2501n/a
Little Star Pony Foundation$1001n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edgecomb Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChapman University: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation: $20,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLaguna Blanca School: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Equine Assistance and Evacuation Team: $5,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Bowl Foundation: $3,760 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Giorgio Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budget911 at Ease International Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Firefighters Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOriginal Music Workshop Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Www FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Www Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About The Edgecomb Foundation

How much does The Edgecomb Foundation give?
The Edgecomb Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $3,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Edgecomb Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (34%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are The Edgecomb Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Chapman University ($37k), Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation ($21k), Laguna Blanca School ($15k).
Does The Edgecomb Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Edgecomb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Edgecomb Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Www Foundation, G a Fowler Family Foundation, Mosher Foundation.
Where is The Edgecomb Foundation based?
The Edgecomb Foundation is based in CA.

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 23 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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