California · Private foundation
Thistle & Rose 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.
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Thistle & Rose Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $146k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $87k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $123k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $51k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $120k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $128k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $120k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $151k | 50% |
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 | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lake Forest Academy | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Calm Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $75,000 | 8 | 1% |
| North Shore Country Day School | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Ynez Valley Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Storyteller Childrens Center Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thistle & Rose 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 · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Barbara N Rubin Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation
How this is measured
About Thistle & Rose Foundation
- How much does Thistle & Rose Foundation give?
- Thistle & Rose Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $150,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Thistle & Rose Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Thistle & Rose Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($175k), Lake Forest Academy ($100k), Calm Inc ($90k).
- Does Thistle & Rose Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thistle & Rose 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 Thistle & Rose Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Thistle & Rose Foundation based?
- Thistle & Rose Foundation is based in CA.
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