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Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MHealth$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.8MYouth Development$1.6MEducation$1.1MAnimals$1.0MEnvironment$969kHuman Services$955kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $830k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SANTA BARBARA$125,000
SRO HOUSING CORPORATION$100,000
CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FDN$100,000
SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN INC$100,000
LAND TRUST FOR SB - SEDGWICK RESERVE$80,000
FOOD BANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$75,000
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$50,000
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SPCA$50,000
THE MIDNIGHT MISSION$50,000
LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY$50,000
LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS$50,000
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT INC$45,000
UNITY SHOPPE INC$30,000
CASA OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$30,000
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION$30,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PATH aka PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $30k → 14%PATH aka PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $30k → 14%PATH aka PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $30k → 14%PATH aka PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%PATH aka PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $25k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $30k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $25k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $25k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $100k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $50k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%CARRILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $30k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $30k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $30k → 14%CARRILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $30k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $30k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $30k → 14%CARRILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $25k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $25k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $25k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $25k → 14%CARILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $20k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 71 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
27

Total granted

$14M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+0%

Still filing today

72%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $585k · revenue +44%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    7× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +67%
  • THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $400k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MW
    MENTAL WELLNESS ASSN IN SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2020 · $90k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +66%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County

To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Santa Barbara Middle School

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…

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
5
Santa Barbara County Trails Council

Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Recreation & Sports
6
The Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary

To rescue, house and rehabilitate unwanted birds and provide education to parrot owners.

Animals
7
South Coast Community Media Access Center Dba Tv Santa Barbara

To provide citizens with access to television and other electronic media resources in order to facilitate public dialogue, free speech and participatory democracy; to foster local creativity, education and culture; and to reflect our…

Arts & Culture
8
Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County

Domestic violence solutions of santa barbara county is dedicated to providing safe harbor to all victims of domestic violence and their children throughout santa barbara county.

Human Services
9
Santa Barbara New House

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…

Health
10
Santa Barbara Soccer Club

Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.

Recreation & Sports
11
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

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12
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Food From the Heart Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr12%41%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
16%
8,098/52,022

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.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 105 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SPCA — $270,000 · OtherCHRYSALIS CENTER — $265,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF CALIFORNIA — $255,000 · OtherFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $585,000 · OtherFoodbank of Santa Barbara County IncDIRECT RELIEF — $540,000 · OtherDIRECT RELIEFSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $260,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS — $314,000 · Other+59 more — $5,025,000 · Other+59 moreLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $513,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES CONSERVAN…MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $485,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE …SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $340,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM …LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $340,000 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDA…THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMB…SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $220,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA SYMPHON…INNER-CITY ARTS — $215,000 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTSCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC …LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $190,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CH…+3 more — $150,750 · Arts & CultureTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $400,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT…BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $270,000 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INST…PARA LOS NINOS — $190,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NIN…UNITY SHOPPE INC — $165,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE…PATH — $165,000 · Human ServicesPATHFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FROM TH…Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $135,000 · Human ServicesChannel Isla…NBCC — $135,000 · Human ServicesNBCCDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER — $60,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesWilderness Youth Project Inc — $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $215,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $185,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRANSITION HOUSE — $380,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $275,000 · Housing & ShelterSINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING CORPORATION — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $265,000 · AnimalsSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $195,000 · AnimalsCARE4Paws Inc — $190,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $25,000 · Animals+1 more — $15,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $310,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $265,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $15,000 · Health
Other$7,514,000Arts & Culture$2,928,750Human Services$1,695,000Youth Development$920,000Housing & Shelter$780,000Animals$690,000Health$640,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $585,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $540,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY — $513,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $485,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $400,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $380,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $340,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $340,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS — $314,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $310,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $275,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $275,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $275,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC — $270,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $265,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCHRYSALIS CENTER — $265,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $265,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $260,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION — $220,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $220,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetINNER-CITY ARTS — $215,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $215,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetELINGS PARK FOUNDATION — $205,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $200,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY — $195,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA — $195,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS — $190,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc — $190,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $190,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $190,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $190,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC — $190,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $190,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $185,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $185,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SANTA BARBARA CHORAL SOCIETY — $170,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $170,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC — $165,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $165,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPATH — $165,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $160,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNBCC — $135,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING CORPORATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $115,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $105,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE — $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $80,750 over 4y, 1.8% of budget
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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
  • Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Mosher FoundationThe Wood-Claeyssens F…June G Outhwaite Char…Williams-Corbett Foun…Bull Henry W Foundati…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Latkin Charitable Fou…The Kirby-Jones Found…California Community …
Santa Barbara FoundationCA63.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · California Community 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 Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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