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The Shanbrom Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
53
Grants FY2025
53
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
51 to 59
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$15M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Shanbrom Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving51$1.2M10%
FY202453$950k11%
FY202357$908k16%
FY202251$910k14%
FY202151$975k14%
FY202055$860k18%
FY201954$923k19%
FY201859$867k27%
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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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.9MEnvironment$1.5MHealth$1.5MEducation$820kAnimals$631kHuman Services$428kInternational$345kHousing & Shelter$230kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 82 grantees
All grantees of The Shanbrom Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ojai Festivals Ltd$781,000910%
Anaheim Ballet$590,000931%
The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy$490,00094%
University of California Irvine Foundation$400,00090%
Direct Relief Foundation$250,00091%
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association$205,00090%
Rwanda Girls Initiative$165,00094%
Turtle Conservancy$145,00061%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$145,00070%
Wild at Heart Inc$140,00096%
Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries$130,00090%
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc$128,00093%
Pacific Symphony$125,00090%
The Wilderness Society$120,00070%
Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers$120,00083%
Community Memorial Health System$120,00040%
Ojai Raptor Center$115,00096%
Music of Remembrance$110,00096%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$105,00090%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$90,00090%
Ojaicares Inc$90,000919%
Agora Foundation Inc$85,00098%
The Peregrine Fund Inc$80,00030%
Kaminando Habitat Connectivity Initiative$75,0008n/a
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc$70,00080%
American Bird Conservancy$68,00040%
Musical Instrument Museum$65,00070%
Ecologistics Inc$60,000313%
Other Minds$60,00092%
Path With Art$55,00023%
Central Coast State Parks Association$50,00082%
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc$50,00011%
The Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Inc$50,0001n/a
Pacific Chorale$50,00013%
Spokes$48,00076%
Legal Voice$40,00041%
Kcnt1 Slack Epilepsy Foundation Inc$40,00033%
Ventana Wildlife Society$40,00041%
Fibco Family Services Inc$40,00031%
Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute$40,00040%
United Way of King County$35,00020%
Farestart$35,00020%
Philharmonic Society of Orange County$35,00021%
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art$30,00023%
Foothills Food Bank$30,00030%
Honorhealth Foundation$30,00020%
Treehouse$30,00030%
Mozart Festival Association$25,00012%
Island Conservation$25,00010%
Amnesty International of the USA Inc$20,00040%
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association$20,00010%
Kcbx Inc$20,00080%
Chase Rauchle Ptsd Now$20,00015%
Downtown Ventura Organization$20,00014%
San Luis Obispo Master Chorale$17,50073%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation$15,00020%
Hospice of San Luis Obispo County$12,50051%
Community Counseling Center Inc$12,50018%
Arpan Global Charities$10,000213%
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History$10,00020%
Monica Ros School Inc$10,00011%
Music To Life Inc$10,00012%
Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County$10,00010%
Nate's Place a Wellness and Recovery Center$10,00013%
Foodshare Inc$10,00010%
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$10,00010%
San Luis Obispo Symphony Inc$7,50030%
Seattle Repertory Theatre$6,50010%
Friends of San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden$5,00011%
Human Rights Watch Inc$5,00010%
Upper Ojai Relief$5,0001n/a
History Center of San Luis Obispo County$5,00021%
Environment in the Public Interest$5,0001n/a
Raven Rock Ranch$5,0001n/a
San Luis Coastal Education Foundation$5,00016%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$5,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$4,00010%
Restorative Partners Inc$2,50010%
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre$2,5001n/a
Cuesta College Foundation$2,50010%
Transitionsmental Health Association$2,50010%
Drug Policy Alliance$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Shanbrom Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOjai Festivals Ltd: $781,000 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetAnaheim Ballet: $590,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetThe Ojai Valley Land Conservancy: $490,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetUniversity of California Irvine Foundation: $400,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief Foundation: $250,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLivingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association: $205,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative: $165,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetTurtle Conservancy: $145,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $145,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWild at Heart Inc: $140,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetPlymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries: $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLos Padres Forestwatch Inc: $128,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetPacific Symphony: $125,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $120,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers: $120,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Memorial Health System: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOjai Raptor Center: $115,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetMusic of Remembrance: $110,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOjaicares Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetAgora Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetThe Peregrine Fund Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSeattle Symphony Orchestra Inc: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $68,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMusical Instrument Museum: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEcologistics Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetOther Minds: $60,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetPath With Art: $55,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCentral Coast State Parks Association: $50,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPacific Chorale: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSpokes: $48,000 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetLegal Voice: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKcnt1 Slack Epilepsy Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetVentana Wildlife Society: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFibco Family Services Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSimons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of King County: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarestart: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhilharmonic Society of Orange County: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSan Luis Obispo Museum of Art: $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFoothills Food Bank: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHonorhealth Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTreehouse: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMozart Festival Association: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIsland Conservation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 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 76.

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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.

The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · Ventura County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Harold J Miossi Charitable Trust · Monimos Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hind Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Bull Henry W Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty 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 Shanbrom Family Foundation

How much does The Shanbrom Family Foundation give?
The Shanbrom Family Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $1,342,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Shanbrom Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Environment (17%), Health (16%).
Who are The Shanbrom Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ojai Festivals Ltd ($781k), Anaheim Ballet ($590k), The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy ($490k).
Does The Shanbrom Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Shanbrom Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Shanbrom Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo, Ventura County Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is The Shanbrom Family Foundation based?
The Shanbrom 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 131 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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