· Private foundation
The Janet Langdon Handtmann Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENO SNAFFLE BIT FUTURITY | $10,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $6,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $5,000 |
| USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN | $5,000 |
| MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA INC | $2,500 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA ZOO | $2,500 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HEARTS THERAPUTIC EQUESTRIAN | $2,000 |
| LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA7× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +143%
- HTHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER6× · 2018–2023 · $29k · revenue +68%
- SYSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ASALL SAINTS BY THE SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +74%
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 monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
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…
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
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.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
None
The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
The following three guiding principles are the foundation for all of the santa barbara museum of natural history's activities: inspiring an awe for nature and a thirst for discovery; promoting sustainability; and connecting our…
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…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Reno Snaffle Bit Futurity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 41 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 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RENO SNAFFLE BIT FUTURITY ↗
- Who funds KIDSPACE A PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN JUSTICE LEGISLATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · California Community Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Miller Family Fund · Gainey Foundation · Cedars of Lebanon Foundation Dba Annette & Richard T Caleel Fam Fdtn · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr
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 Janet Langdon Handtmann 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.