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The J&C Colmar 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

International$21kArts & Culture$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kEducation$6kEnvironment$1kYouth Development$1kCommunity Improvement$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$275k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$6,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,000
WORLD CENTAL KITCHEN$6,000
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$4,000
AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE$3,500
BOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CASA DEL HERRERO$1,000
SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
ZACH THEATRE$600
THE RIVIERA ASSOCIATION$60
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MECA: $1k → 10%HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1k → 14%UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $4k → 10%WORLD CENTAL KITCHEN: $6k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 14%AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%WORLD CENTAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%ZACH THEATRE: $600 → 10%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%ZACH THEATRE: $600 → 10%SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $4k → 14%SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $4k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY: $4k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CASA DEL HERRERO: $1k → 14%BOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY: $1k → 14%SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $1k → 14%BOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 10 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$52k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +1%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +63%
  • ME
    MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -12%
  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
2
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
3
Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Arts & Culture
4
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
5
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
7
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
8
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
9
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
10
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Boxtales Theatre Company. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIRECT RELIEF: $11,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,108 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1,000 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $8,188 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST…BOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBOXTALES THEATRE COMPANYAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $4,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCEZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER: $1,200 · Arts & CultureZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTERSANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA…Individual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual gr…GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $1,000 · OtherGANNA WALSKA …CASA DEL HERRERO: $1,000 · OtherCASA DEL HERR…+1 more: $100 · OtherUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,000 · Youth Development
International$28,108Arts & Culture$19,388Other$7,100Education$2,500Youth Development$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $8,188 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZACHARY SCOTT THEATRE CENTER: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The J&C Colmar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J&C Colmar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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