· Private foundation
The Danny Kwock Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWPORT AQUATIC CTR | $47,000 |
| ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING | $21,000 |
| SURFING HERITAGE CULT CTR | $15,000 |
| FLORIDA SURF FILM FEST | $11,000 |
| WALK ON WATER | $10,000 |
| THE COLLEGES OF LAW SCHOLRSHIP | $5,000 |
| BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| CF BALBOA PEN POINT COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| JIM THORPE FUNDAMENTAL | $1,000 |
| LOMPOC GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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
- NANEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $122k · revenue +20%
- WCWEST COAST UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $81k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $50k
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +54%
- UBUS BOARD RIDERS CLUBSone grant, 2023 · $35k
- UDUS DEPT OF EDUC SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $33k
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 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…
Our mission is to regenerate the health of our ocean planet and reverse climate change. we protect and restore blue carbon ecosystems around the world, and create educational stories that inspire people and corporations to take action.
The mission of Christian Surfers is to be a ministry to surfers and a mission for surfers to impact the beach and beyond with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Santa Barbara Swim Club is devoted to helping children learn to swim competitively. The club's teaching environment encourages character development and self-discipline necessary to succeed in the pool and in life outside the pool.
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
Surf competition training for Paralympic athletes
To operate a competitive swim club
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
To ensure the right of the public to access and respectfully enjoy the California Coast. To work for the completion of the California Coastal Trail and to educate the public about the coast and ocean resources.
To develop and promote the sport of surfing globally. the organization is recognized by the international olympic committee as the world governing authority for surfing, standup paddle (sup) surfing and racing, and all other wave riding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shake a Leg Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission Enablers International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 44 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 NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US BOARD RIDERS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DYLAN RIEDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC ↗
- Who funds SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENABLERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds A WALK ON WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ISLAND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Hard as Nails MinistriesInc ↗
- Who funds Just Communities Central Coast ↗
- Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Danny Kwock 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.