· Private foundation
The Vaya Con Dios Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bishop Garcia Diego High School | $30,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $27,700 |
| Santa Barbara Intl Film Festival | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| Our Lady of Mt Carmel School | $15,000 |
| Sisters of Saint Joseph | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +85%
- MLMindful Life Project6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +344%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SCSOUTHLAND CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $55k
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +74%
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +255%
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.
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.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
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The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
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Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds RED BIRD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CORAZON INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vaya Con Dios Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vaya Con Dios Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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