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Underwood Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$274k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Underwood Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$46k12%
FY202325$46k16%
FY202219$31k16%
FY202118$22k0%
FY202018$23k17%
FY201920$22k45%
FY201822$21k59%
FY201717$15kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$47kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$32kEducation$25kEnvironment$22kHousing & Shelter$16kAnimals$11kInternational$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
CT
CA
AR
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Underwood Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $27,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChronicle Season of Sharing Fund: $27,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budget10000 Degrees: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTransition House: $15,510 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Botanic Garden: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $5,626 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Maritime Museum: $5,590 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Film Institute: $5,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHeal the Ocean Inc: $5,534 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKqed Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of North American Goldsmiths: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Strength: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ninos Adelante Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVivalon: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Audubon Society: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Enamelist Society Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBerkeley Repertory Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Zoological Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRead-Aloud Volunteer Program: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO'Hanlon Center for the Arts Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Friendship Paddle: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Argonaut Charitable Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Underwood Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Underwood Family Charitable Foundation give?
Underwood Family Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $46,430 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Underwood Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Underwood Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Food Bank ($27k), Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund ($27k), 10000 Degrees ($23k).
Does Underwood Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Underwood Family Charitable 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 Underwood Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
Where is Underwood Family Charitable Foundation based?
Underwood Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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