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The Matthews Salazar Imagitas 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.

$77k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$231k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$74k0%
FY202316$79k44%
FY202220$89k45%
FY202119$68k47%
FY202013$83k54%
FY20191$272k100%
FY201824$135k58%
FY201726$127kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$310kHealth$204kEducation$160kCivil Rights$59kArts & Culture$56kPhilanthropy$53kRecreation & Sports$47kHuman Services$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
WY
CA
CO
NE
VA
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($599k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc: $66,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $38,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Neighborhood Clinics: $33,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Project for Resilient Communities: $29,160 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOrkeeswa Inc: $26,378 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCate School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalm Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $12,222 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeading from Within: $10,300 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPacific Pride Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Environmental Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBellosguardo Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Commission of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget911 at Ease International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa del Herrero: $2,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Working Group: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal India Fund Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Volleyball Club: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Marcos High School Athletic Boosters Club: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVna Health Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoxie Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Colorado College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGanna Walska Lotusland: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Revels Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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 FoundationCA39.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Brittingham Family 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.

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How do I get to The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation

How much does The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation give?
The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $76,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Health (20%), Education (16%).
Who are The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc ($67k), Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ($39k), Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics ($34k).
Does The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Matthews Salazar Imagitas 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 Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, G a Fowler Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
Where is The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation based?
The Matthews Salazar Imagitas Foundation is based in CA.

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 75 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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