· Private foundation
The Shanbrom Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $685k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $381k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| ANAHEIM BALLET | $75,000 |
| OJAI FESTIVALS LTD | $56,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA ARTS & LECTURES | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION (UCI) | $50,000 |
| THE TURTLE CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES INC | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM | $30,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CARE | $25,000 |
| MOZART FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- OFOJAI FESTIVALS LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +15%
- ABAnaheim Ballet9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +25% · 31% of their budget
- TOTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +268%
Funded once
- CCCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -22%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION (UCI)-COVID 19one grant, 2020 · $50k
- PCPACIFIC CHORALEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +66%
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
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.
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is Raven Rock Ranch. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 131 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 OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds Anaheim Ballet ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Rwanda Girls Initiative ↗
- Who funds TURTLE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD AT HEART INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Symphony ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Concerned Resource & Environmental Workers ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds MUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds OJAICARES INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGORA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
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: 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
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 Shanbrom Family 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.
- Music to Life Inc — 5% 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.