· Private foundation
The Nurture 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 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 $10k23 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $18,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA | $13,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF CARPINTERIA | $13,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $6,000 |
| HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $5,663 |
| MONTECITO FIREFIGHTER'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE | $5,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $5,000 |
| AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT | $5,000 |
| HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| DYSLEXIA PROJECT | $5,000 |
| VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARE SANTA BARBARA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CCCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +66%
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +52%
- SCSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- WCWYMAN CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2022 · $50k
- RJRANKEN JORDAN HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RSROSSMAN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +29%
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.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
Santa Barbara Charter School provides public school services for students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Classroom-based K-6 and Home-Based is Transitional K-8.
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
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.
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…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 60 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 CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds L E A D PROMISING YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Dyslexia Project ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Montecito Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr
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 Nurture 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.