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The Shanbrom Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shanbrom Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $685k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $381k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES INC$40,000
THE TURTLE CONSERVANCY$40,000
COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM$30,000
CARE$25,000
MOZART FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION$25,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $13k → 12%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NATE'S PLACE WELLNESS AND RECOVERY CENTER: $10k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $20k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 77 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
44

Total granted

$7.8M
$468k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OF
    OJAI FESTIVALS LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $781k · revenue +15%
  • AB
    Anaheim Ballet
    9× · 2017–2025 · $590k · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +268%

Funded once

  • CC
    Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION (UCI)-COVID 19
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PC
    PACIFIC CHORALEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
2
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

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.

Animals
4
Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Institute for Bird Populations

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.

Animals
6
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
7
Los Angeles Conservancy

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Trust for Public Land

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,…

Environment
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
The California Channel

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…

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12
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County; 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.
04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
56/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDESERT MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherDESERT MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA ARTS & LECTURES: $190,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA AR…UC REGENTS: $188,000 · OtherUC REGENTSTATEUCHI CENTER: $168,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SANTA BARBARA VENTURA & SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES INC: $145,000 · OtherOVERLAKE HOSPITAL: $120,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $145,000 · OtherConcerned Resource & Environmental Workers: $120,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $130,000 · Other+66 more: $1,626,500 · Other+66 moreOJAI FESTIVALS LTD: $781,000 · Arts & CultureOJAI FESTIVALS LTDAnaheim Ballet: $590,000 · Arts & CultureAnaheim BalletPacific Symphony: $125,000 · Arts & CulturePacific SymphonyMUSIC OF REMEMBRANCE: $110,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $414,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreMAYO CLINIC: $525,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICLIVINGSTON MEMORIAL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $205,000 · HealthLIVINGSTON ME…COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $120,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MEM…OJAICARES INC: $90,000 · HealthOJAICARES INCKCNT1 SLACK EPILEPSY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Health+5 more: $72,000 · Health+5 moreTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $490,000 · EnvironmentTHE OJAI VA…LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $128,000 · EnvironmentLOS PADRES …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERN…Ojai Raptor Center: $115,000 · EnvironmentOjai Raptor…ECOLOGISTICS INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGISTIC…+2 more: $30,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · EducationAGORA FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · EducationOther Minds: $60,000 · Education+4 more: $32,500 · EducationTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $145,000 · AnimalsWILD AT HEART INC: $140,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $105,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy: $68,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $40,000 · AnimalsHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsDIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesRwanda Girls Initiative: $165,000 · Human Services+2 more: $22,500 · Human Services
Other$3,282,500Arts & Culture$2,090,000Health$1,052,000Environment$943,000Education$667,500Animals$523,000Human Services$437,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $525,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budget
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 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 WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OJAICARES 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 ↗

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 Foundat…Ventura County Commun…Marin Community Found…Harold J Miossi Chari…Monimos FoundationSanta Barbara Foundat…Hind FoundationHughes Charitable Fou…David & Sylvia Weisz …The Clements Family C…Bull Henry W Foundati…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shanbrom Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shanbrom Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Music to Life Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home