California · Private foundation
The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 112
- Grants FY2025
- 127
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 115 to 169
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $131M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $815k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 111 | $7.9M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 127 | $7.7M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 115 | $7.7M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $6.5M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 124 | $6.5M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 159 | $12M | 5% |
| FY2019 | 163 | $12M | 6% |
| FY2018 | 169 | $11M | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $6,524,015 | 8 | 8% |
| Food Share Inc | $3,560,034 | 5 | 4% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | $2,500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $2,190,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc | $2,175,000 | 9 | 53% |
| Carpinteria Children's Project | $1,950,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Pepperdine University | $1,835,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | $1,787,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $1,750,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $1,750,000 | 5 | 17% |
Show all 203 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 186 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The McCune Foundation · James S Bower Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
- How much does The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation give?
- The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation reported 112 grants totaling $8,448,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 115 and 169 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (18%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($6.5M), Food Share Inc ($3.6M), Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ($2.5M).
- Does The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation based?
- The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation is based in CA.
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