· Private foundation
Williams-Corbett Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPENMINDS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CALM | $30,000 |
| LEAP | $25,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| GOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSION SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| DIGNITY MOVES | $25,000 |
| DOS PUEBLOS ENGINEERING ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $25,000 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR GIRSH PARK | $25,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SEA LEAGUE | $24,000 |
| SB FOOD ACTION NETWORK | $21,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $621k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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 +67% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
132 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k 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
- SBSanta Barbara Education Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +57%
- OSORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN5× · 2017–2023 · $143k · revenue +786%
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION5× · 2017–2023 · $112k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SASB AGRICULTURE AND FARM EDUCATION Fone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CDCLIFF DRIVE CARE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +14%
- REROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
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.
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
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.
Cemetery association
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…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
To provide high-quality civil legal services to vulnerable santa barbara county residents.
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…
Museum of contemporary art santa barbara (mcasb) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. mcasb provides santa barbara and the central coast with exhibitions and…
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mosaic Therapy Collective. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
142 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. 142 of the 231 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Childrens Resource Network of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
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 · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Towbes Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Bull Henry W 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 Williams-Corbett 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.