California · Private foundation
Towbes Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 96
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $170,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 80
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $51M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Towbes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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 | 86 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $874k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $766k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calm Inc | $301,500 | 4 | 2% |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc | $254,455 | 4 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $165,250 | 4 | 3% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $120,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $93,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $84,375 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $82,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nbcc | $81,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Storyteller Childrens Center Inc | $79,750 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($883k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Towbes 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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Mosher Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation
How this is measured
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About Towbes Foundation
- How much does Towbes Foundation give?
- Towbes Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $1,475,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Towbes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Education (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Towbes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Calm Inc ($302k), United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc ($254k), Santa Barbara Education Foundation ($165k).
- Does Towbes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Towbes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Towbes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is Towbes Foundation based?
- Towbes Foundation is based in CA.
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