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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.

$592k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
EducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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
FY2024still arriving20$585k50%
FY202314$544k36%
FY202221$372k48%
FY202111$665k18%
FY202018$458k50%
FY201914$192k29%
FY201818$335k44%
FY201719$222kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.7MEnvironment$151kPhilanthropy$147kHealth$142kFood & Nutrition$85kHuman Services$70kInternational$45kAnimals$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Catholic University of America$1,048,90770%
St Bonaventure University$482,58880%
Ganna Walska Lotusland$150,00011%
Louisville High School$131,3004n/a
Connectedconectando Educacion$79,970822%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$76,57720%
Unity Shoppe Inc$70,00011%
Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation$31,956448%
Community Partners International$31,35020%
Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara Inc$25,247120%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Catholic University of America: $1,048,907 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSt Bonaventure University: $482,588 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGanna Walska Lotusland: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetConnectedconectando Educacion: $79,970 over 8y, 22% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $76,577 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUnity Shoppe Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Vintners Foundation: $31,956 over 4y, 48% of budgetCommunity Partners International: $31,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTherapy Dogs of Santa Barbara Inc: $25,247 over 1y, 20% of budgetShining Stars Network Inc: $10,800 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFood From the Heart Inc: $8,619 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDirect Relief: $7,831 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $7,163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSommFoundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPlan International USA Inc: $3,396 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Organization of Santa Barbara: $3,133 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $2,876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Historical Museum: $1,917 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce: $1,438 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMutual Housing Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthridge Hospital Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Northridge Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeddy Bear Cancer Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Soccer Club: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLegends Futbol Academy: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLouisville Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $30 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 30.

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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 FoundationCA21.2× affinity8 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 · 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

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 Grassini Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $592,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Environment (4%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Catholic University of America ($1.0M), St Bonaventure University ($483k), Ganna Walska Lotusland ($150k).
Does The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
Where is The Grassini Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Grassini Family Charitable 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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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