California · Private foundation
Www 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2023
- 107
- Grants FY2023
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Www Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 83 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Www Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 71 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 116
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 12
- Total assets, FY2023
- $91M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Www Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 85 | $3.2M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $3.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $3.2M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 110 | $3.3M | 30% |
| FY2019 | 105 | $3.2M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 116 | $3.8M | 65% |
| FY2017 | 77 | $3.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Woodward Animal Center | $8,440,714 | 8 | 10% |
| University of California Davis | $1,026,300 | 7 | n/a |
| African Women Rising | $913,500 | 7 | 11% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | $906,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Santa Barbara Historical Museum | $831,350 | 8 | 6% |
| Young America's Foundation | $655,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Lobero Theatre Foundation | $602,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Crystal Cove Conservancy | $515,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Long Live the Kings | $506,667 | 8 | 3% |
| Washington State University | $418,998 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 272 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Www Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Mosher Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Www Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Www 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.
About Www Foundation
- How much does Www Foundation give?
- Www Foundation reported 107 grants totaling $3,426,894 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 116 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Www Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Animals (25%), Education (9%).
- Who are Www Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Helen Woodward Animal Center ($8.4M), University of California Davis ($1.0M), African Women Rising ($914k).
- Does Www Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Www Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Www 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 Www Foundation based?
- Www Foundation is based in CA.
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