California · Nonprofit
The Ear Foundation
The Ear Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocal
- J Roland Gilbert Mary R Gilbertportfolio match
- Global Genesportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Ear Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of The Ear Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 245 organizations near you
- J Roland Gilbert Mary R Gilbertportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Genesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groh George W Tr FBO Med Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health First - America's Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Neurology Education and Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyourpossible Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zero Prostate Cancerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oticon Hearing Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Ear Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Ear Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Ear Foundation?
- The Ear Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Ear Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to The Ear Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The Ear Foundation?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Ear Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing