· Private foundation
The Stephen & Carla Hahn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Women's Refuge of Vero Beach | $10,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| The Leadership Institute | $6,000 |
| Florida Sheriffs Association | $3,000 |
| The Moorings Educational Foundation | $3,000 |
| TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $250k · revenue +11%
- IRINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +23%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- ETENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +21%
- MAMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WESTone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +18%
- CACOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -22%
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.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…
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 santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Pelican Island Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 34 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 SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Women's Refuge of Vero Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH DOG PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN WINGS ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Mosher Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Stephen & Carla Hahn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% 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.