· Private foundation
The Osherenko-Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +123%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
73 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. 73 of the 123 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- 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 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- 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 Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Osherenko-Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osherenko-Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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