· Private foundation
The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $665k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HART UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $173,000 |
| SANTA MARIA JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $72,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARITA VALLEY | $60,000 |
| SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA | $60,000 |
| MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AG ONE FOUNDATIONJORDAN COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & TECH CSU FRESNO | $50,000 |
| FORT MASON CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MID-CENTRAL COAST | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST | $50,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED | $43,000 |
| POINT BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE | $40,000 |
| SINGLE MOTHERS OUTREACH OF SANTA CLARITA | $40,000 |
| FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY | $40,000 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 98% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $478k · revenue +49%
- MRMARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +3%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST8× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- SCSanta Clarita Valley Committee On Aginggraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +109%
- PJPlanting Justicegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +216%
- CPCALIFORNIA POLY STATE SAN LUIS OBISPOone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.
The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is Atascadero Printery Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
150 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. 150 of the 234 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Resource Network of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Santa Clarita Valley Committee On Aging ↗
- Who funds The College of the Canyons Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONSMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Academy ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Architectural Heritage ↗
- Who funds Future Leaders of America ↗
- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds Samuel Dixon Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CURRY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ORCUTT AREA SENIORS IN SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Center ↗
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 · Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Miranda Lux Foundation · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Williams-Corbett 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 Henry Mayo Newhall 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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