Delaware · Private foundation
The Kirby-Jones 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Kirby-Jones Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 66 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $648k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $860k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $665k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $690k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $548k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $538k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $527,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $450,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Elings Park Foundation | $252,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Cate School | $185,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc | $157,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $126,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Casa del Herrero | $117,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation | $110,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Creative Netwerk | $105,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Wilderness Youth Project Inc | $105,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 114 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kirby-Jones Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Manitou Fund · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Www Foundation · James S Bower Foundation
How this is measured
About The Kirby-Jones Foundation
- How much does The Kirby-Jones Foundation give?
- The Kirby-Jones Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $1,325,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Kirby-Jones Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Education (25%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Kirby-Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden ($528k), Uc Santa Barbara Foundation ($450k), Elings Park Foundation ($253k).
- Does The Kirby-Jones Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kirby-Jones Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kirby-Jones Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Kirby-Jones Foundation based?
- The Kirby-Jones Foundation is based in DE.
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