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The Gracie Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Gracie Charitable 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$134kEducation$68kAnimals$49kArts & Culture$9kHealth$9kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$60k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$8,000
EYES EARS NOSE AND PAWS INC$5,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$3,000
THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY$2,000
OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST$2,000
HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC$2,000
GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION$1,000
ADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY$1,000
HEAL THE OCEAN$1,000
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF$1,000
PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE$1,000
WOMENS FUND OF SANTA BARBARA$612
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$500
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEARTHSTONE VILLAGE: $1k → 18%HEARTHSTONE VILLAGE: $1k → 18%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
NM
NC
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263k · 29 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$263k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+5%

Still filing today

97%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +418%
  • PO
    PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +32%
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • PT
    PILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +48%
  • NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • BC
    BUELLTON COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network

Santa barbara wildlife care network (sbwcn) serves to rescue, rehabilitate and return to the wild sick, injured, orphaned, or oil-impaired wild birds, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals in santa barbara and ventura counties and to…

Animals
3
Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation Inc

To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.

Animals
4
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
5
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
6
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
7
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
8
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
9
Leave No Paws Behind Inc

Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.

Animals
10
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
11
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
12
Silicon Valley Pet Project

Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Hearthstone Village. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 55 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST: $75,000 · EnvironmentOREGON DESERT LAND TRUSTSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $8,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUESouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $7,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness AllianceALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $7,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUENATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,200 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $8,500 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · OtherOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOC…HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $7,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA IN…WaterWatch of Oregon: $5,375 · OtherWaterWatch of OregonEyes Ears Nose and Paws Inc: $5,000 · OtherEyes Ears Nose and Paws IncTHE CECILIA FUND: $3,750 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $2,750 · OtherBUELLTON COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherPILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES: $5,000 · OtherPILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DO…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherPizza to the Polls: $2,500 · Other+13 more: $15,250 · Other+13 morePEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $16,250 · AnimalsPEACE OF MIND D…PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $5,550 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE …K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $5,500 · AnimalsK-9 PLACEMENT A…HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $4,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY …THE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE KINDNESS RA…OLD DOG HAVEN: $2,500 · AnimalsOLD DOG HAVENSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION: $1,500 · Animals+3 more: $1,850 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · Public BenefitSANTA BARBARA…The Thacher School Inc: $14,000 · EducationThe Thacher…Santa Barbara Education Foundation: $4,000 · EducationSanta Barba…SANTA BARBARA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $3,334 · EducationSANTA BARBA…PISACANO LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $3,200 · EducationPISACANO LE…FREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $3,000 · EducationFREEDOM 4 Y…Healing in America: $1,700 · EducationHealing in …+1 more: $500 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $15,000 · Crime & LegalWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,323 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Philanthropy
Environment$103,200Other$74,125Animals$42,150Public Benefit$36,000Education$29,734Crime & Legal$15,000Philanthropy$6,073

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 budgetOREGON DESERT LAND TRUST: $75,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $16,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $5,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $5,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWaterWatch of Oregon: $5,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPILGRIM TERRACE COOPERATIVE HOMES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CECILIA FUND: $3,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $3,334 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPISACANO LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $3,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINDNESS RANCH ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPizza to the Polls: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,323 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealing in America: $1,700 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURES IN CARING FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBakersfield Boxers & Bullies Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COASTAL HORSE RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMMACULATE HEART COMMUNITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEITY ANIMAL RESCUE AND FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Manitou FundJune G Outhwaite Char…The Kirby-Jones Found…The Turpin-Allebrand …James S Bower Foundat…Rudi Schulte Family F…Women's Fund of Santa…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Towbes Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA34.6× affinity15 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 · Manitou Fund · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes 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 Gracie Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gracie Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • WaterWatch of Oregon: 61% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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