California · 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.
- $178k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations The Nurture Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $178k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $168k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $244k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $203k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $78k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $97k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $199k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $148k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crane Country Day School | $277,860 | 7 | 1% |
| Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation | $200,117 | 8 | 2% |
| Storyteller Childrens Center Inc | $126,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria | $39,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vna Health | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center | $35,000 | 6 | 2% |
| L E a D Promising Youth Inc | $32,000 | 2 | 53% |
| Huntingtons Disease Society of America Inc | $24,563 | 7 | n/a |
| Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($294k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Nurture Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Nurture Foundation
- How much does The Nurture Foundation give?
- The Nurture Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $178,078 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Nurture Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (27%), Youth Development (20%).
- Who are The Nurture Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Crane Country Day School ($278k), Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation ($200k), Storyteller Childrens Center Inc ($126k).
- Does The Nurture Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Nurture 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 Nurture Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Nurture Foundation based?
- The Nurture Foundation is based in CA.
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