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Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$4.3MCivil Rights$1.0MEmployment$775kArts & Culture$180kHealth$120kHousing & Shelter$45kEnvironment$40kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK$900,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$400,000
WORKING CIRCLE$325,000
Individual grant recipient$165,000
SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION$60,000
VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY$30,000
WILDLIFE CARE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL$25,000
PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED$25,000
EASTWOOD RANCH FOUNDATION$25,000
RESQCATS INC$25,000
BEAR LEAGUE$25,000
CAT TOWN$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUDNATION: $25k → 22%BEAR LEAGUE: $25k → 6%SEMPERVIRENS FUND: $20k → 8%WILDLIFE CARE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 10%LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $50k → 11%DONKEYLAND: $30k → 11%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $30k → 12%CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $20k → 14%TVSB (ANIMALZONE): $90k → 14%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED: $25k → 14%THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT: $685k → 9%WORKING CIRCLE: $325k → 7%TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $25k → 14%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $400k → 6%BEAR LEAGUE: $25k → 6%WILDLIFE CARE OF SOCAL: $25k → 10%LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $30k → 11%DONKEYLAND: $20k → 11%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $25k → 12%SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $900k → 14%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED: $25k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORKING CIRCLE: $250k → 7%TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $25k → 14%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $360k → 6%BEAR LEAGUE: $25k → 6%WILDLIFE CARE OF SOCAL: $20k → 10%LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $25k → 11%DONKEYLAND RESCUE: $100k → 11%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $20k → 12%SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $900k → 14%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED: $25k → 14%WORKING CIRCLE: $200k → 7%TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $25k → 14%YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION: $250k → 6%BEAR LEAGUE: $25k → 6%LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $25k → 11%SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $500k → 14%PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED: $25k → 14%SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: $100k → 14%THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT: $200k → 14%EASTWOOD RANCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%TVSB (AnimalZone): $165k → 14%TVSB (AnimalZone): $165k → 14%TVSB (AnimalZone): $125k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%TVSB (AnimalZone): $100k → 14%SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION: $60k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.9M · 20 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$6.9M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+74%

Still filing today

80%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • TW
    THE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $885k · revenue +47% · 44% of their budget
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • ES
    ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +82%
  • AS
    Animal Shelter Assistance Programgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +74%

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
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
3
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
4
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
5
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
6
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
9
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
10
Baja Animal Sanctuary

Provide a safe haven for needy animals, reduce population, and adopt homeless animals

Animals
11
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
12
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cat Town and the most unlike its peers is Animal Rescue Aid Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $2,400,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORKTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT — $885,000 · AnimalsTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT+16 more — $855,000 · Animals+16 moreYoung America's Foundation — $1,010,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationWORKING CIRCLE — $775,000 · OtherWORKING CIRCLEIndividual grant recipient — $645,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · Other+6 more — $155,000 · Other+6 moreSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $180,000 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $120,000 · HealthTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $25,000 · HealthSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $20,000 · Environment
Animals$4,140,000Other$2,685,000Recreation & Sports$205,000Health$145,000Environment$20,000

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 budgetSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK — $2,400,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $1,010,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT — $885,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS — $130,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBEAR LEAGUE — $100,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $95,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL — $85,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWildcare Eastern Sierra — $75,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetRESQCATS INC — $70,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDonkeyLand — $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCAT TOWN — $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE AID CORPORATION — $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEAVE NO PAWS BEHIND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…Santa Barbara Foundat…The Duffield Family F…Bragg Health Foundati…Patricia Bragg Founda…Mary Jo and Hank Gree…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Hutton Foundation Dba…Manitou FundThe Annenberg Foundat…The Chicago Community…Network for Good
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Bragg Health Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Network for Good

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 Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs 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 · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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