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Towbes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
96
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MEducation$893kHealth$775kHuman Services$545kYouth Development$411kCrime & Legal$334kHousing & Shelter$182kEnvironment$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $217k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $873k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $386k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$170,575
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTHWELL$65,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FND$50,000
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$50,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FND$50,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$48,250
SANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIO$40,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA$38,250
LEAP LEARNENGAGEADVOCATEPARTNER$35,000
SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$25,000
OPENMINDS FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILD ABUSE LISTENING MEDIATION$25,000
NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER$24,000
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARB$22,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $444k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATH - PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $15k → 14%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 10%PATH - PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELES: $5k → 14%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 10%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $5k → 10%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $8k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $38k → 14%SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $8k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $8k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $5k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $5k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $12k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $12k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTE: $11k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVIC: $5k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $8k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FAMILY CARE CENTER IN: $5k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $24k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARB: $23k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARB: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARB: $20k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $20k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $18k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $16k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $15k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $15k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $15k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 85 repeat orgs$650k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
57

Total granted

$3.4M
$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+23%

Still filing today

73%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CALM INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $302k · revenue +54%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Education Foundation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $165k · revenue +22%
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +64%
  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • VH
    VNA HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health
2
Santa Barbara Middle School

To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…

Education
3
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

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.

Recreation & Sports
4
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.

Public Benefit
6
South Coast Community Media Access Center Dba Tv Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
7
San Benito County Community Services Development Corporation

To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.

Housing & Shelter
8
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
9
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

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10
Santa Barbara County Action Network

To promote social and economic justice

Community Improvement
11
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

—
12
Southern California Rehabilitation Services Inc

To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Atterdag At Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/104
Grantees still filing
72/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,120,225 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $254,455 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA CO…+3 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropySCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $120,750 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBA…COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTHWELL: $90,000 · OtherSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $79,750 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD CA CENTRAL COAST: $62,000 · Other+92 more: $1,379,950 · Other+92 moreSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $165,250 · EducationSanta Barbar…UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $93,000 · EducationUC SANTA BAR…Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $76,000 · EducationIsla Vista Y…Pathpoint: $44,500 · EducationPathpointFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $35,000 · EducationFREEDOM 4 YO…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $29,200 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · Education+9 more: $101,550 · Education+9 moreSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $120,000 · HealthSanta Barba…Casa Serena: $49,000 · HealthCasa SerenaAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $47,000 · HealthAHA ATTITUD…Standing Together to End Sexual Assault: $36,000 · HealthStanding To…Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc: $32,000 · HealthSanctuary C…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $28,500 · HealthMENTAL HEAL…Openminds Foundation: $25,000 · HealthVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE: $22,750 · HealthFIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY: $17,500 · Health+10 more: $113,125 · Health+10 moreChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $84,375 · Human ServicesChannel Is…FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $82,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…NBCC: $81,500 · Human ServicesNBCCCUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $48,125 · Human ServicesCUYAMA VAL…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $30,000 · Human ServicesCasa Pacif…FOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesPATH: $20,000 · Human ServicesEASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $17,500 · Human Services+7 more: $72,500 · Human Services+7 moreCALM INC: $301,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH: $47,000 · Youth DevelopmentWilderness Youth Project Inc: $40,250 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of America: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $31,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,419,680Other$1,732,450Education$591,000Health$515,875Human Services$476,500Crime & Legal$306,500Youth Development$173,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $1,120,225 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCALM INC: $301,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $254,455 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $165,250 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $120,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $93,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $84,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $82,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNBCC: $81,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $79,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $76,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $57,250 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCasa Serena: $49,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $48,125 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $47,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH: $47,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $46,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPathpoint: $44,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION: $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $40,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFuture Leaders of America: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $37,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $36,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $31,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $29,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $28,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGuadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center: $26,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOpenminds Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVNA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY: $23,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE: $22,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNATURE TRACK FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetPATH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeading from Within: $18,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLOMPOC TEEN CENTER: $18,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $18,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Williams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…James S Bower Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Latkin Charitable Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…Mosher FoundationThe McCune FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Roy and Ida Eagle Fou…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA153.6× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Towbes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Towbes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Towbes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Towbes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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