· Private foundation
William P Neil Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of William P Neil Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Santa Barbara Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year William P Neil Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST | $2,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER | $2,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $1,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| NEW BEGININGS COUNSELING CENTER | $1,000 |
| CASA | $1,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $1,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +61%
- FOFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +76%
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SBBSLOone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SHSARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +13%
- AHALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
The santa barbara rescue mission is a ministry of christian people bringing physical, emotional, educational and spiritual resources to all who struggle with homelessness and addiction.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Cemetery association
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.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
"The mission of San Benito Health Foundation is to provide quality, affordable comprehensive health services to the community of San Benito County and surrounding areas in a manner that is accountable to the community while being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Housing Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEALING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Towbes Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Volentine Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The McCune 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 William P Neil Foundation 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.
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.