California · Private foundation
The Victor and Susan Schaff Family 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.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 45
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $475k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $295k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $227k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unity Shoppe Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Transition House | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara New House | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Casa Serena | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Colab Foundation | $30,600 | 3 | 12% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Towbes Foundation · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The B & B Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation
- How much does The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation give?
- The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $500,099 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 45 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Environment (21%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Unity Shoppe Inc ($200k), Transition House ($55k), Santa Barbara Rescue Mission ($55k).
- Does The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation based?
- The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation is based in CA.
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