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The Spivey Family Foundation Inc
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC | $5,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $3,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $2,500 |
| CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $1,550 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
| THE EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD PROJECT | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA | $1,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Spivey Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +34%- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +74%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SNSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -73%
- TJTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +9%
- TMTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -21%
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.
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To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Asian Mental Health Collective Inc. 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 33 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 94 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 PACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD TANK THE THINK TANK FOR FOOD ↗
- Who funds APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDE Youth Project ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LITERARY & PROLOGUE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North of MarketTenderloin Community Benefit Corporation ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Www Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · California Community 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 Spivey Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 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.
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