· Private foundation
Vos 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 $10k16 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKWATER YACHT CLUB INC | $17,200 |
| GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC | $12,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GOAT ON A BOAT INC | $9,000 |
| THE KOHALA CENTER INC | $8,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK | $5,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $5,000 |
| THE INTERCEPT | $4,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $2,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC | $2,000 |
| ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA | $2,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST INC | $1,200 |
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 (FY19–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 16 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SFSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA4× · 2017–2020 · $169k · revenue +174%
- SBSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +271%
- SBSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- ETENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +44%
- CHCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $31k
- SBSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $31k
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.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Museum of contemporary art santa barbara (mcasb) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. mcasb provides santa barbara and the central coast with exhibitions and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc and the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Ministry 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 68 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 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds RE-ENTRY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
- Who funds THE KOHALA CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds COLD NOSES WARM HEARTS ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GOAT ON A BOAT INC PO BOX 327 ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds WESPAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL EDGE FUND ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Steele Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Manitou Fund · The New York Community Trust
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 Vos 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.
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
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.