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WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff Foundation at a glance

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WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff 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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.9MInternational$281kYouth Development$150kHuman Services$70kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AHA$20,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $300k → 10%TOURISM MANAGEMENT: $75k → 11%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DUNN SCHOOL: $75k → 14%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DUNN SCHOOL: $75k → 14%CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DUNN SCHOOL: $75k → 14%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DUNN SCHOOL: $75k → 14%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%DUNN SCHOOL: $25k → 14%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%DUNN SCHOOL: $25k → 14%STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 12%DUNN SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%CATE SCHOOL: $25k → 14%LOU GRANT PARENT CHILD WORKSHOP: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARPINTERIA: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBAR: $20k → 14%AHA: $21k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $66k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 14%AHA: $20k → 14%CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 13 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$3.2M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +47%
  • CL
    CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • DS
    DUNN SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $375k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SB
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • GI
    GIRLS INC - SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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 Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
2
Flintridge Preparatory School

Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.

Education
3
Santa Catalina School

Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…

Education
4
Carlthorp School

Carlthorp school is an independent, nonprofit day school for children in grades k-6. carlthorp school provides a strong academic foundation in a diverse and nurturing school community that emphasizes traditional values, disciplined work…

Education
5
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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9
Crestview Preparatory School

We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…

Education
10
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
11
The Center for Early Education

The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…

Education
12
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Louis Stevenson School; the most unlike its peers is Lou Grant Parent-Child Workshop. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITYDUNN SCHOOL: $375,000 · EducationDUNN SCHOOLCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $190,500 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $175,000 · EducationROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOLCATE SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOL+1 more: $70,000 · EducationAHA: $160,500 · OtherAHASAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSI…GIRLS INC: $110,000 · OtherGIRLS INCIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBAR: $70,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF S…Lou Grant Parent-Child Workshop: $70,000 · OtherLou Grant Parent-Child W…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CARPINTERIA: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF C…SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SB: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,610,500Other$730,500Youth Development$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDUNN SCHOOL: $375,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $190,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCarpinteria Education Foundation Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetLou Grant Parent-Child Workshop: $70,000 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $10,000 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 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUNN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lou Grant Parent-Child Workshop ↗
  • Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Ann Jackson Family Fo…Santa Barbara Foundat…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ann Jackson Family FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to WHALE BEACH FOUNDATION Formerly Edgecliff Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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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