· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $35,000 |
| CASA SERENA | $35,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
| POLICE ACTION LEAGUE (PAL) | $30,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $30,000 |
| FOOD FROM THE HEART | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $30,000 |
| UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA | $30,000 |
| LOVELAND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY SANTA BARBARA | $28,500 |
| THE MATTHEWS HOUSE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +23%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Volentine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Volentine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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