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Patricia Bragg 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.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$8.8MPhilanthropy$5.2MHuman Services$2.3MAnimals$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.7MEducation$839kYouth Development$645kHealth$535kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $7.1M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$4,000,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,500,000
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$505,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$500,000
SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED$300,000
WINDWARD FUND$300,000
EXPLORE ECOLOGY$200,000
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK$170,000
UNITY SHOPPE INC$150,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR BIODIVERSITY$100,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$100,000
WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST$100,000
ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$100,000
CARE4 PAWS$75,000
DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC$75,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $990k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MICHAEL P NOSCO FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BIG CAT RESCUE: $15k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $50k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $3k → 14%CUYAMA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $25k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $150k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $140k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $100k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $100k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $50k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $9k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 49 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
99

Total granted

$12M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+42%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $947k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TL
    THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +167%
  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +5%
  • CE
    COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • C
    CEC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CO
    CASA OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PA
    PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK-CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
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
3
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
4
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
5
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.

Animals
6
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.

Animals
7
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
10
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
11
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
12
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Rona Barrett Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Equine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Social ServicesSenior Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…School District FoundationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%59%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/124
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,854

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.

04the grantee network

119 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. 119 of the 165 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/119
Grantees still filing
84/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $4,100,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA …COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,515,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCILWINDWARD FUND — $300,000 · Environment+14 more — $913,500 · Environment+14 moreSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $5,064,500 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION+5 more — $60,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCEC — $1,000,000 · OtherCECNORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS AND CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $200,000 · OtherUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $355,000 · OtherUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS …Wilderness Youth Project Inc — $282,500 · OtherSARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA — $200,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $215,000 · Other+82 more — $1,929,123 · Other+82 moreFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $1,540,000 · Food & NutritionORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN — $115,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more — $30,000 · Food & NutritionSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $475,000 · AnimalsSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED — $303,500 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc — $200,000 · AnimalsAnimal Shelter Assistance Program — $100,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $75,000 · AnimalsTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY — $65,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $60,000 · Animals+21 more — $312,000 · AnimalsUNITY SHOPPE INC — $490,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $150,000 · Human ServicesNBCC — $100,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE'S FUND — $100,000 · Human ServicesChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $52,500 · Human Services+8 more — $126,000 · Human ServicesUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $110,000 · EducationCalifornia Institute for Biodiversity — $100,000 · EducationTHE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL — $30,000 · Education+2 more — $7,000 · Education
Environment$6,828,500Philanthropy$5,125,000Other$5,681,623Food & Nutrition$1,685,000Animals$1,590,500Human Services$1,118,500Education$747,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $5,064,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $4,100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $1,540,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,515,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC — $490,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $475,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $355,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED — $303,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $282,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY — $225,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $215,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA — $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTY RAPE CRISIS AND CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $170,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN — $115,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC — $112,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNBCC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program — $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCalifornia Institute for Biodiversity — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY — $65,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $54,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $52,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL SANCTUARY FOR ELEPHANTS — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSAVIE HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRESQCATS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPEGASUS EQUINE GUARDIAN ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetWorld Dance for Humanity — $27,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetJODI HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Williams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…June G Outhwaite Char…Bragg Health Foundati…Mosher FoundationManitou FundJames S Bower Foundat…Towbes FoundationThe B & B Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA93.7× affinity50 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 · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Bragg Health Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Manitou Fund · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · The B & B 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 Patricia Bragg 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Patricia Bragg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia Bragg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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