· Private foundation
The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $325,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $325,000 |
| PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $305,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR ECO EDUCATION & AGRICULTURE | $280,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION | $250,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR COTTAGE REHABILITATION | $250,000 |
| VENTURA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SPECIAL ENFORCEMENT TEAM SUPPORT | $170,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $165,000 |
| UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
209 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +76%
- FSFOOD SHARE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $3.6M · revenue +94%
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital7× · 2019–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CMCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +48% · 69% of their budget
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +20%- LVLompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Incone grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue -36%
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.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
Cemetery association
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
To provide citizens with access to television and other electronic media resources in order to facilitate public dialogue, free speech and participatory democracy; to foster local creativity, education and culture; and to reflect our…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Maria Valley Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Horses Heart & Soul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 278 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOOD GLEN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Solvang Friendship House ↗
- Who funds PAINTED CAVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WE SUPPORT THE TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds OXNARD COMMUNITY K9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVANG THEATERFEST INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 Wood-Claeyssens 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.
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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