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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.
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.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k19 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $740k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER | $450,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES | $290,000 |
| AFRICAN WOMEN RISING | $222,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $100,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $99,000 |
| ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| LONG LIVE THE KINGS | $70,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $65,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $55,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DIGNITYMOVES | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES ROOM & BOARD (LA ROOM & BOARD) | $50,000 |
| LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Www Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 52% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
162 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2023, 90 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k 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
- HWHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +84%
- AWAFRICAN WOMEN RISING7× · 2018–2024 · $914k · revenue +172%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES3× · 2021–2023 · $907k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CBCHALLENGERS BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $275k
- DVDa Vinci Schoolsgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $110k · revenue +91%
- AWAFRICAN WOMEN RISING FORMERLY CAFWAone grant, 2017 · $65k
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
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…
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…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Behappy Living 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
270 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. 270 of the 340 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 Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
- Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Ninos del Sol Inc ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
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 · 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
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 Www 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% 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.
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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.