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The Nurture Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$449kHealth$354kYouth Development$262kHuman Services$68kRecreation & Sports$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kHousing & Shelter$18kEnvironment$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION$30,000
CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$30,000
STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER$18,000
GIRLS INC OF CARPINTERIA$13,000
GIRLS INC OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA$13,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$6,000
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA$5,663
MONTECITO FIREFIGHTER'S CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE CARE SANTA BARBARA$5,000
SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE$5,000
AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT$5,000
DYSLEXIA PROJECT$5,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$5,000
TRANSITION HOUSE$5,000
HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $10k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $5k → 14%HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $3k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $3k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $3k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $3k → 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

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 30 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
22

Total granted

$1.1M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CC
    CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +66%
  • TB
    TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • RJ
    RANKEN JORDAN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • WC
    WYMAN CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • RS
    ROSSMAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +29%
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
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

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.

Education
2
Santa Barbara Middle School

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…

Education
3
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

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.

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4
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
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
7
Santa Barbara Charter School

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.

Education
8
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County

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.

Civil Rights
9
Santa Barbara Swim Club

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.

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10
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
11
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
12
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Botanic Garden; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $126,000 · OtherSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INCGIRLS INCORPORATED: $108,400 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATEDRANKEN JORDAN HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherRANKEN JORDAN HOSPITALWYMAN CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $50,000 · OtherWYMAN CAPITAL CAMPAIGNGREATER ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherGREATER ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONL E A D PROMISING YOUTH INC: $32,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED SANTA BARBARA GOLETA: $26,000 · OtherHUNTINGTONS DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $24,563 · Other+35 more: $151,759 · Other+35 moreCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $277,860 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLThe Dyslexia Project: $15,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $14,250 · EducationTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,117 · HealthTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUND…VNA HEALTH: $36,000 · HealthVNA HEALTHSANSUM CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINICCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $13,445 · Health+4 more: $12,000 · HealthHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $11,500 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $39,000 · Youth DevelopmentSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTRANSITION HOUSE: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$604,722Education$307,110Health$276,562Human Services$57,000Youth Development$39,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $277,860 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,117 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $126,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $39,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVNA HEALTH: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $35,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetL E A D PROMISING YOUTH INC: $32,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetMONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Dyslexia Project: $15,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $13,445 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSSMAN SCHOOL: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $13,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $11,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation: $11,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: $10,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAT SHELTER: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAFETY TOWN OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMontecito Community Foundation: $3,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SOCCER CLUB: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $642 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL THEATER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 5.6% 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.

  • 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 MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
  • 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 ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • 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 CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Montecito Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA SOCCER CLUB ↗

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…The Kirby-Jones Found…Mosher FoundationLatkin Charitable Fou…Williams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…The John C Mithun Fou…Elizabeth and John Mo…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA47× affinity21 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 · 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
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 Nurture Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nurture Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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 60 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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