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The Greene Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $17,000 |
| ST VINCENTS-PATHS | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION (TRI-COUNTIES) | $10,000 |
| HEARTS ALIGNED INC | $10,000 |
| ROYAL PRIDE FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| CASA PACIFICA | $7,000 |
| ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA | $7,000 |
| FREEDOM 4 YOUTH | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA | $7,000 |
| CASA OF SANTA BARBARA | $7,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH | $6,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +52%
- SCSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +72%
- AFANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- UVUSC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +130%
- DFDPEA FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HTHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +68%
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 foundation administered a health insurance plan (healthy kids santa barbara) for children 0-19 in santa barbara county to improve the health access of this needy population. the children enrolled in this plan previously did not have…
Santa Barbara Swim Club is devoted to helping children learn to swim competitively. The club's teaching environment encourages character development and self-discipline necessary to succeed in the pool and in life outside the pool.
The primary function of the organization is to provide eligible low-income high school-aged student athletes in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, California, with grants paid to local athletic facilities in order to provide them…
Mission:the foundation for sbhs partners with sbhs leadership to evaluate and fund emergent needs that are outside the scope of the school budget.vision: the foundation for sbhs aims to create the premier public high school where every…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
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.
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 club's mission is to help each member become the best volleyball player they can be and to support parents in guiding each player to become the best person they can be. the club is dedicated to the development of young people as…
The foundation seeks to bring together charitable donors, community leaders and nonprofit organizations in support of, and to encourage philanthropic support of santa barbara county sheriff's deputies, by providing training and equipment,…
The mission is to empower children facing medical challenges to express themselves through the art of filmmaking. through our programs, children discover their own unique voice and experience the healing power of self-expression. over…
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
To serve the University, to involve UCSB alumni and students in its affairs and to enlist alumni talents in the preservation and promotion of UCSB's image, tradition, pride and status as a world class university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central Coast and Southern Central Valley and the most unlike its peers is National Reyes Syndrome Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM EDUCATION FOR PARENTS ↗
- Who funds Hearts Aligned Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
- Who funds ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM 4 YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SURF HAPPENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REYES SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Standing Together to End Sexual Assault ↗
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 · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Junior League of Santa Barbara · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The Little One Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation
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 Greene 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.
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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