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The Iscovich 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$47kInternational$42kEducation$15kArts & Culture$9kYouth Development$6kPhilanthropy$4kRecreation & Sports$4kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UCSF FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%SANTA BARBARA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 14%THE FRESHWATER TRUST: $500 → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $2k → 9%ACTION FOR AIDEN: $1k → 5%SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $1k → 9%ACTION FOR AIDEN: $1k → 5%SANTA BARBARA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $1k → 9%SANTA BARBARA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $1k → 9%SANTA BARBARA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $1k → 9%SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY: $1k → 14%ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%ST MARK'S-IN-THE-VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 14%ST MARKS IN THE VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $300 → 14%SYV AIRPORT AUTHORITY: $500 → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY: $500 → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%SOLVANG THEATERFEST: $3k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SOLVANG THEATERFEST: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $18k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $10k → 14%WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: $3k → 14%WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: $2k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $1k → 14%WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: $1k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $1k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $1k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNITE TO LIGHT: $2k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $1k → 14%SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $1k → 14%UNITE TO LIGHT: $200 → 14%SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SANTA BARBARA VINTERS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$118k · 20 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$118k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    6× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +94%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +32%
  • UB
    UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CH
    COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc

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…

Health
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
3
Sutter Health

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

It is the mission of Goleta Valley 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.

Health
5
Medical Staff of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

The purpose of the Medical Staff of Santa Barbara is to assure that all patients admitted to or treated at Cottage Health facilities (hospitals) receive a uniform standard of quality care, treatment and efficiency consistent with generally…

Unclassified
6
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Barlow Respiratory Hospital

A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.

Health
9
San Benito Health Foundation

"The mission of San Benito Health Foundation is to provide quality, affordable comprehensive health services to the community of San Benito County and surrounding areas in a manner that is accountable to the community while being…

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10
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

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.

Animals
11
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

—
12
Cottage Health

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.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Action for Aidan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIRECT RELIEF — $40,600 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $2,200 · International+1 more — $1,400 · InternationalSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $20,500 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital F…WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE — $6,000 · HealthWORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVESanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation — $3,000 · HealthSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospit…ACTION FOR AIDAN — $2,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $2,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $2,000 · HealthLOMPOC HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $1,700 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — $9,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI…COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDA…SANTA BARBARA NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM — $4,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA NATURAL H…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNI…ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $2,500 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONST MARK'S-IN-THE-VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $2,300 · OtherST MARK'S-IN-THE-VALLEY…SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT ASSOCIATION — $1,000 · OtherSANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC — $1,000 · Other+3 more — $1,100 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND — $5,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $6,450 · Youth DevelopmentSOLVANG THEATERFEST INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Philanthropy
International$44,200Health$38,200Other$27,400Education$7,000Youth Development$6,450Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $40,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $6,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOLVANG THEATERFEST INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $2,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR AIDAN — $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOMPOC HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $1,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Hutton Foundation Dba…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…G a Fowler Family Fou…Gainey FoundationUnited Way of Santa B…Towbes FoundationMosher FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Gainey Foundation · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Iscovich 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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