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The Kirby-Jones Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$2.1MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$904kHealth$832kRecreation & Sports$333kYouth Development$266kPhilanthropy$200kHuman Services$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $923k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC$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
COASTAL RANCHES CONSERVANCY$25,000
CATE SCHOOL$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
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$25,000
THINK WILD$25,000
MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHELTER BOX: $20k → 10%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 10%SHELTER BOX: $10k → 10%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%NBCC: $10k → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
OR
NV
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Kirby-Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Kirby-Jones Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 72 repeat orgs$759k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
54

Total granted

$5.7M
$492k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth 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

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $528k · revenue +77%
  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +176%
  • EP
    ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $253k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GT
    GRANADA THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • HIGH DESERT MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • SC
    St Charles Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +87%
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
Santa Lucia Conservancy

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.

Environment
2
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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4
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
5
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
6
Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

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…

Environment
7
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
8
Balboa Park Conservancy

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…

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9
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
10
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
11
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
12
Big Sur Land Trust

The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/111
Grantees still filing
77/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVATORY: $510,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVATORYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $367,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUC SANTA BARBARA BREN SCHOOL OF ESM: $302,500 · OtherUC SANTA BARBARA BREN SCHOOL OF ESMELINGS PARK FOUNDATION: $252,500 · OtherELINGS PARK FOUNDATIONHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $157,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · Other+78 more: $2,074,000 · Other+78 moreUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA …CATE SCHOOL: $185,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOLSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $126,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Edu…The Dyslexia Project: $95,000 · EducationThe Dyslexia Proj…CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $87,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHER…FORMATIVE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Education+11 more: $134,000 · Education+11 moreSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $527,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA B…HEAL THE OCEAN INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN …Deschutes Land Trust: $70,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes Land …DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $55,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER…THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $45,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $40,000 · Environment+12 more: $92,500 · Environment+12 moreASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthVNA HEALTH: $70,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $55,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $35,000 · HealthFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $35,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 · HealthSt Charles Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $20,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $20,000 · Health+7 more: $60,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTE: $94,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY YOUTH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWilderness Youth Project Inc: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $115,000 · PhilanthropyMontecito Community Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Community Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,808,500Education$1,117,500Environment$980,000Health$460,000Arts & Culture$309,000Youth Development$215,000Philanthropy$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $527,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $367,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELINGS PARK FOUNDATION: $252,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $185,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $157,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $126,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $117,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCREATIVE NETWERK: $105,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $105,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $100,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetThe Dyslexia Project: $95,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTE: $94,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $87,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $85,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGRUPO CLEOFAS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PASADENA: $75,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetVNA HEALTH: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAS MADRINAS: $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY YOUTH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $45,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORMATIVE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThink Wild: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMontecito Community Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSt Charles Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 CREATIVE NETWERK ↗
  • Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
  • 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
  • Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Mosher FoundationBrittingham Family Fo…Williams-Corbett Foun…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…Manitou FundThe Wood-Claeyssens F…Www FoundationJames S Bower Foundat…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA89.4× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Kirby-Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kirby-Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 154 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home