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The Osherenko-Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER | $300 |
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 (FY17–20, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
74 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +95%
- SISAFEART INC3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +35%
- PEPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue ×19
Funded once
- FAFIGGE ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +33%
- LPLOS PADRES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CCAMAone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 123 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 MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAFEART INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds ART WITHOUT LIMITS ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds Planning & Conservation League ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
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 · The Vermont Community Foundation · Emmett Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The McCune Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation
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 Osherenko-Young 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vermont Achievement Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% of income from government
- Copley Health Systems Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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