California · Private foundation
Writer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $48k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Writer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $48k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $43k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $59k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $62k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $85k | 32% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $78,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $51,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Greenpeace Fund Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $18,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tennis Patrons Assoc of Santa Barbara | $17,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Colorado Open Lands | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Music Academy of the West | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Writer Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · Raintree Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee · Towbes Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Giles 2000 Tr Dba Giles Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Writer Family Foundation
- How much does Writer Family Foundation give?
- Writer Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $47,928 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Writer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (31%), International (29%), Arts & Culture (22%).
- Who are Writer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($78k), Direct Relief ($60k), The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County ($51k).
- Does Writer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Writer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Writer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation.
- Where is Writer Family Foundation based?
- Writer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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