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The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$164k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$9k15%
FY202314$11k7%
FY202213$9k0%
FY202113$9k54%
FY20209$12k44%
FY20199$14k56%
FY20186$14k83%
FY20172$7kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$34kEducation$33kInternational$4kEnvironment$3kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hackley School$16,00070%
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc$15,00070%
Ojai Festivals Ltd$7,00070%
Ojai Playwrights Conference$5,00061%
Help of Ojai Inc$2,60040%
Fractured Atlas Inc$2,50010%
Food Share Inc$2,25050%
The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy$1,30040%
Humane Society of Ventura County$1,15040%
Friends of Fieldworkers Inc$1,10040%
Fresh Air Fund$1,10040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,10040%
Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers$1,10040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
American Humane Association$1,00010%
Ojai Youth Opera Company$1,00011%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Ojai Trees$7503n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHackley School: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Hispanico of New York Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Festivals Ltd: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOjai Playwrights Conference: $5,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHelp of Ojai Inc: $2,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Share Inc: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ojai Valley Land Conservancy: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Ventura County: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fieldworkers Inc: $1,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Humane Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Youth Opera Company: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Monimos Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation

How much does The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation give?
The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (38%), International (5%).
Who are The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hackley School ($16k), Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc ($15k), Ojai Festivals Ltd ($7k).
Does The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family 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 Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Monimos Foundation, David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation.
Where is The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation based?
The Peter Strauss & Rachel Ticotin Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 27 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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