· Private foundation
The Grassini Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE GRASSINI FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $150,000 |
| LOUISVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $126,050 |
| CHAMINADE HIGH SCHOOL | $105,550 |
| THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA | $100,492 |
| UNITY SHOPPE | $70,000 |
| RAECHEL & JACKIE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY BOTANIC GARGEN | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| SISTERS OF SAINT LOUIS | $1,100 |
| SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $1,000 |
| MONO COUNTY SHERIFF SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM | $1,000 |
| PLAN USA | $585 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
- SBST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $483k · revenue +88%
- CECONNECTEDCONECTANDO EDUCACION8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +548%
Funded once
- CHCHAMINADE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMINADE TORCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $49k
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
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.
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mutual Housing Corporation. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDCONECTANDO EDUCACION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THERAPY DOGS OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SommFoundation ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SOUTH COAST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · William P Neil Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 Grassini Family Charitable 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.
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.