· Private foundation
Wm Brian & Judith A Little Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART | $100,000 |
| GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| MOUNT MITCHELL PRAIRIE GUARDS | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC | $10,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC | $5,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC | $5,000 |
| HEAL THE OCEAN | $5,000 |
| PECONIC LAND TRUST INCORPORATED | $2,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST | $2,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $1,000 |
| GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN INC | $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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +30%
- BCBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +100%
- FOFRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVISone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
- CMCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
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.
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…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To inspire meaningful connections to santa barbara history.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hollister House Garden Inc. 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 40 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW YORK CITY NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds THE MONTAUK PLAYHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds Hollister House Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds Montecito Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds AMAGANSETT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMAGANSETT VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Www Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Wm Brian & Judith A Little Charitable Trust 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.
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.