· Private foundation
The Gretler 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $485k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $25,000 |
| GOOD NEWS IN ACTION INC | $25,000 |
| THE UCSB FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SANSUM DIABETES RESEARCH INST | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| GOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GNGOOD NEWS IN ACTION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +224%
- SDSansum Diabetes Research Institute8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +3%
- SBSanta Barbara Education Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHAB &one grant, 2024 · $100k
- GVGoleta Valley Cottage Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +37%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA LOS PADRES COone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
The purpose of Goleta Valley Professional Buildings, Inc. is to provide the technical and physical environment in which quality health care can be provided in a responsible, dignified and efficient manner.
It is the mission of the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation to develop, manage and channel the community's financial support on behalf of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, thereby serving not only to protect, but also enhance…
It is the mission of Cottage Health to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
It is the mission of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (SYVCH) to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion. SYVCH is a…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Our mission is to advance the well-being of children, promote access to high quality pediatric health care, and ensure the long-term viability of childrens hospitals.
CBEE aims to improve economic mobility for the next generation of learners by matching talent to jobs and career opportunities. Aligning academic achievements with job market needs, it engages employers while helping learners pursue…
The cancer foundation is the leading sponsor and largest donor to the ridley-tree cancer center at sansum clinic, the largest provider of cancer care on the central coast. each year, the foundation commits a minimum of 85% (up to 100%) of…
The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.
Southern california grantmakers (scg) is the regional association for philanthropists and grantmakers working to make a difference in our communities and around the world. we are a leadership hub for our members to connect with each other,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GOOD NEWS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST JR GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds GOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp ↗
- Who funds MARYAM PARMAN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE FISHER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bull Henry W Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gretler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gretler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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