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Volentine Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| UNITY SHOPPE INC | $55,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $42,000 |
| THOMPSON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CASA SERENA | $35,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $35,000 |
| LOVELAND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
| POLICE ACTION LEAGUE (PAL) | $30,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $30,000 |
| FOOD FROM THE HEART | $30,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY SANTA BARBARA | $28,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +64% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- USUNITY SHOPPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $403k · revenue +65%
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +177%
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LCLA CUMBRE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -10%
- NDNATURAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
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…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 154 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
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 UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDSPAK INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Serena ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds HARMONY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON R2-J EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds MOXI THE WOLF MUSEUM OF EXPLORATION INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Bull Henry W 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 Volentine Family 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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