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The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

International$81kArts & Culture$66kHealth$59kEnvironment$39kEducation$31kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$25kCrime & Legal$18kHuman Services$18kOther$166k
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHAB$13,000
CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$13,000
DIRECT RELIEF$11,000
FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$9,500
CANCER FDN OF SANTA BARBARA$7,000
HEAL THE OCEAN$6,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$3,500
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$3,000
ALCAZAR THEATER$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$2,000
HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA$2,000
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $1k → 11%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $1k → 11%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $1k → 11%SHELTER BOX: $1k → 14%SHELTER BOX: $1k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%PATH (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $3k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $1k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $500 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$441k · 60 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
23

Total granted

$441k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    4× · 2021–2025 · $61k · revenue +24%
  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    4× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +65%
  • HT
    HEAL THE OCEAN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR CARPINTERIA BLUFFS
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • CH
    Cottage Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • TR
    THE REACHING BACK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
3
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
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
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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8
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
9
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
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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12
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Susan Morrow Legacy Foundation. 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 55 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%71%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,910

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
42/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $17,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCITIZENS FOR CARPINTERIA BLUFFS — $13,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR CARPINTERIA BLUFFSFOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHAB — $13,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHABALCAZAR THEATER — $12,250 · OtherALCAZAR THEATERSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $22,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $13,500 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC+54 more — $135,702 · Other+54 moreDIRECT RELIEF — $60,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,500 · InternationalInternational Res…World Dance for Humanity — $5,000 · InternationalWorld Dance for H…AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $4,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 · International+2 more — $3,000 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $62,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA …CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER — $2,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $36,000 · HealthCANCER FOUND…Cottage Hospital — $10,000 · HealthCottage Hosp…ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $3,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINIC — $3,000 · Health+7 more — $6,500 · Health+7 moreHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $23,850 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $5,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $4,500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $3,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $2,000 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $18,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $22,500 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$226,452International$81,000Arts & Culture$65,750Health$58,500Environment$39,350Education$30,500Food & Nutrition$24,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $62,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $60,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $36,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC — $23,850 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCottage Hospital — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Dance for Humanity — $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATH — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REACHING BACK FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center — $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $4,252 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALM INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COAST JR GOLF INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER — $2,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…James S Bower Foundat…Mosher FoundationThe Kirby-Jones Found…Towbes FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…Brittingham Family Fo…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA61.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Brittingham Family 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 Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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