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The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$103kCommunity Improvement$74kEducation$69kInternational$61kHuman Services$55kFood & Nutrition$49kArts & Culture$37kCrime & Legal$34kHealth$32kOther$256k
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $173k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCEANA$33,000
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$25,000
LOTUSLAND$15,000
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$15,000
COTTAGE HOSPITAL$10,000
AFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA$10,000
FOOD FORWARD$10,000
MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION$10,000
SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM$10,000
MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION$10,000
SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER$10,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION - SANTA CRUZ RESERVE$7,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$5,000
SANTA BARBARA YOUTH SAILING$5,000
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 (FY23–24, $6k) 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.

area typical 11%THE STARFISH CONNECTION: $3k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $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
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
UT
VA
NC
DC
FL

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$633k · 30 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
18

Total granted

$633k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

77%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    6× · 2019–2024 · $57k · revenue +67%
  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +325%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TM
    TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $56k · revenue -87%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • BA
    BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

1
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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2
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
3
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
4
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
5
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
6
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
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
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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12
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Cruz Island Foundation. 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 backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Animal Welfare and EducationIndustry Trade AssociationsIndependent Schools and Ear…Community Support Organizat…
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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr12%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr12%36%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/41
the rest of the field
14%
11,521/81,427

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

41 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. 41 of the 57 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $56,000 · OtherTERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $55,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION — $22,000 · OtherMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATIONMOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION — $18,300 · OtherLOTUSLAND — $18,000 · OtherCOTTAGE HOSPITAL — $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $12,500 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $27,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUMBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME — $33,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME+28 more — $102,313 · Other+28 moreOCEANA INC — $41,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $36,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA C…HEAL THE OCEAN INC — $18,500 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN …OCEAN CONSERVANCY — $5,640 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVAN…+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentSANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION — $57,500 · Community ImprovementSANTA CRUZ…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $16,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …THE WEBB SCHOOLS — $23,500 · EducationTHE WEBB S…CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $17,393 · EducationCRANE COUN…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $13,000 · EducationST LAWRENC…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $11,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-…NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $4,000 · EducationNATIONAL G…DIRECT RELIEF — $57,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalAFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA — $29,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Connection Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN WOMEN RISING — $2,500 · Human ServicesFOOD FORWARD INC — $48,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$359,613Environment$102,640Community Improvement$73,500Education$68,893International$60,500Human Services$55,000Food & Nutrition$48,500

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 budgetSANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION — $57,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $56,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $48,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $36,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER OXNARD & PORT HUENEME — $33,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICA SCHOOLS OF KENYA — $29,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM — $27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOLS — $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $18,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION — $18,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $17,393 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TRUST INC — $7,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $5,640 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER — $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStarfish Connection Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC — $2,961 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTECITO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $928 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Turpin-Allebrand …Elizabeth and John Mo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…The Kirby-Jones Found…California Community …The Leslie S and Phil…The John C Mithun Fou…Brittingham Family Fo…Dancing Tides Foundat…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA31.2× affinity13 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 · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Leslie S and Philip L Bernstein Family Fund · The John C Mithun Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc

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 Garland and Brenda Reiter Family 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

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    How do I get to The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Garland and Brenda Reiter Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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