· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $923k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST | $35,000 |
| CASA DEL HERRERO | $27,500 |
| THINK WILD | $25,000 |
| CATE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PASADENA | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER | $25,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 6% of The Kirby-Jones 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.
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.
72 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 22 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN4× · 2021–2024 · $528k · revenue +77%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +176%- EPELINGS PARK FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $253k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- GTGRANADA THEATREone grant, 2021 · $45k
- SCSt Charles Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +87%
HIGH DESERT MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +39%
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.
To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
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…
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
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.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Dyslexia Project. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 154 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 SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE NETWERK ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds The Dyslexia Project ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRUPO CLEOFAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY YOUTH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Ranches Conservancy ↗
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 · 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
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 Kirby-Jones 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.
- WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — 45% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Central Oregon Trail Alliance — 1% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
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.