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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.

$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$287kEducation$222kHealth$123kReligion$105kAnimals$87kRecreation & Sports$70kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$5,000
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK$5,000
THE INTERCEPT$4,000
SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM$3,000
FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC$2,000
LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$2,000
ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA$2,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST INC$1,200
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $5k → 7%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $2k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CT
CA
TN
DC
HI
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$852k · 28 repeat orgs$274k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
33

Total granted

$852k
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+44%

Still filing today

57%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $169k · revenue +174%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +271%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2018 · $31k
  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue +44%
  • CH
    COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $31k
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
Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

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.

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

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…

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10
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
11
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
12
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $168,700 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARACONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN: $80,000 · OtherCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAANIndividual grant recipient: $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISITING NURSES & HOSPICE CARE: $50,700 · OtherVISITING NURSES & HOSPICE CARESANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONBREAKWATER YACHT CLUB INC: $41,200 · OtherBREAKWATER YACHT CLUB INCSILVERMINE GUILD ARTS CENTER: $33,500 · OtherBRAILLE INSTITUTE: $32,200 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $31,200 · OtherCOTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $31,200 · OtherRE-ENTRY MINISTRY INC: $30,000 · OtherNORTH HAVEN TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $27,500 · Other+29 more: $122,700 · Other+29 moreMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $75,700 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE …SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $37,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MARITIM…ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $31,200 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE COMP…SHED NYC INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGOAT ON A BOAT INC PO BOX 327: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $67,000 · AnimalsCOLD NOSES WARM HEARTS: $10,000 · AnimalsGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $19,000 · EnvironmentTHE KOHALA CENTER: $11,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $9,200 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $8,000 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $5,000 · Human ServicesANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$754,900Arts & Culture$216,400Animals$77,000Environment$44,700Food & Nutrition$15,000Human Services$10,000Health$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $168,700 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $75,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $67,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM: $37,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $31,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KOHALA CENTER: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $9,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOAT ON A BOAT INC PO BOX 327: $9,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVITAL EDGE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGHOUSE RESERVE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 COLD NOSES WARM HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FORK BAKERY FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS CORP ↗

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 Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…Brittingham Family Fo…June G Outhwaite Char…The Steele Family Fou…Towbes FoundationMosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Manitou FundThe New York Communit…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vos Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vos Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 68 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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