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Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
EASTWOOD RANCH FOUNDATION$25,000
RESQCATS INC$25,000
BEAR LEAGUE$25,000
TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL$25,000
PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MED$25,000
WILDLIFE CARE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
CAT TOWN$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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

IL
NY
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
DC
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
  • CI
    CARE4Paws Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +109%
  • AS
    Animal Shelter Assistance Programgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +74%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cat Town; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCAT TOWN: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDonkeyLand: $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE AID CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $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
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.

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.

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

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 Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wendy P McCaw Foundation the Goldman Sachs. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    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 33 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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