· Private foundation
The Little One 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $318k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $495k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREATIVE VISIONS | $230,000 |
| LOTUS LAND | $115,000 |
| BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| IMPACT ASSETS INC | $50,000 |
| REBOOT INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
| KISS THE GROUND | $25,000 |
| MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE RIVIERA RIDGE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $25,000 |
| THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT | $25,000 |
| FARMER'S FOOTPRINT | $20,000 |
| UC REGENTS - UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $20,000 |
| LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL | $15,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 15 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICALM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +85%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $108k · revenue +66%
- SBSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- MMAWone grant, 2017 · $30k
- DDAWGone grant, 2017 · $25k
- FFFASHION FOUNDATION USAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +108%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 111 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC ↗
- Who funds BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
- Who funds KISS THE GROUND ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Riviera Ridge School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds FASHION FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Partnerships For Change ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
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 · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Lucky One Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Manitou Fund · Mosher Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · G a Fowler Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Little One Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Little One Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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