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The McIntyre Foundation at a glance

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The McIntyre Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$456kReligion$146kEducation$27kHuman Services$21kInternational$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHealth$1kPhilanthropy$850Other$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$200
Median grant
5
States reached
$888k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA$16,000
WESTMONT COLLEGE$3,250
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$2,500
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$1,000
WESTMONT RIDLEY-TREE MUSEUM OF ART$600
LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION$500
SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY$300
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER$250
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST$250
THE SMITH FUND$200
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL$200
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$200
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY$200
CAMERATA PACIFICA$200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $21k) 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.

area typical 10%AARP FOUNDATION: $100 → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAYCARE: $250 → 14%FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER: $100 → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA: $300 → 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

NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$650k · 27 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$650k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

59%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth 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

  • CA
    CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER
    4× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +13%
  • MR
    MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    6× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • NH
    Noank Historical Society Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TA
    THE ARTS FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -70%
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
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
4
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
Maranatha High School

Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…

Education
7
Santa Catalina School

Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…

Education
8
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
9
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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11
Carlthorp School

Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…

Education
12
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara; the most unlike its peers is Carpinteria Movies in the Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $306,000 · Arts & CultureCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTERMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $8,359 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $118,075 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTALL SAINTS-BY-THE-SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherALL SAINTS-BY-THE-SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCHALL SAINTS BY THE SEA: $66,300 · OtherALL SAINTS BY THE SEASCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $17,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA+21 more: $19,450 · Other+21 moreMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $750 · Human ServicesWESTMONT COLLEGE: $5,700 · EducationPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $300 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250 · Education+2 more: $225 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $500 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $800 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$329,359Other$301,325Human Services$20,750Education$6,475International$2,000Public Benefit$1,000Youth Development$800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $306,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $5,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CARPINTERIA LIBRARY: $1,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMERATA PACIFICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarpinteria Education Foundation Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Giles 2000 Tr Dba Gil…La Centra-Sumerlin Fo…June G Outhwaite Char…The Kirby-Jones Found…The John C Mithun Fou…The Turpin-Allebrand …Santa Barbara Bowl Fo…James S Bower Foundat…Stone Family Foundati…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA35.6× affinity15 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 · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Stone 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McIntyre Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McIntyre Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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