Lopker Family Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA · EIN 77-0448078. Reported 131 grants totalling $9,894,910 to 55 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lopker Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $178 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $2,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Don Bosco Tech | Rosemead, CA | $1,200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | $1,100,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $825,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scholarship Foundation of Sb | Santa Barbara, CA | $500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Totem Technologies | Redmond, WA | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc (school of Medicine) | Baltimore, MD | $240,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ucsb Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $220,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Giving What We Can | Wilmington, DE | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Natural Medicine | Seattle, WA | $123,133 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Good Food Institute | Washington, DC | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Harvest | Cambridge, MA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ubc - Bc Cancer Research Institute | Vancouver, British Columbia | $79,157 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Give Well | Oakland, CA | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| CARBON180 | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clean Air Task Force | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Givedirectly Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Givewell | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maps | Santa Cruz, CA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Moxi - the Wolf Museum | Santa Barbara, CA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Multiplier | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Life You Can Save | Sequim, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Sbhs | Santa Barbara, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara High School | Santa Barbara, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Humane League | Rockville, MD | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Granada Theater - Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Merced | Merced, CA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Sbcc | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kindering | Bellevue, WA | $15,060 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ahimsa Collectivelife Comes From Ittides Foundation | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Stembassadors | Ventura, CA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Direct Relief International | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Dog Rescue | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gaviota Coast Conservancy | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kidlinks World | Middleton, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Mojave Center | Pahrump, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sbhs Computer Science Academy Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hopewell | Chagrin Falls, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington Coalition for Open Governance | Redmond, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Showers of Blessing | Goleta, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unity Shoppe Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $3,926 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Signal Technology Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Association of University Women | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,850 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Impact 100 Seattle | Seattle, WA | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cal Matters | Sacramento, CA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food From the Heart | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Montecito Community Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Greater Contribution | Thousand Oaks, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Catherine By the Sea | Ventura, CA | $784 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
32 of 55 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 69%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
INSTITUTE FOR PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH - University of Washington
IN FURTHERANCE OF SGI'S RESEARCH (PROSTATE CANCER) - UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation
DR SLAMON CANCER RESEARCH - Don Bosco Tech
KARL LOPKER ENDOWED MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND, EST 2018 - University of Washington Foundation
ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES PARASITOLOGY FUND - Totem Technologies
IN FURTHERANCE OF SECTION 501 (C)(3) EXEMPT PURPOSE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 67 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $1,137,183 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 29 | $2,897,000 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 37 | $3,232,983 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 32 | $2,627,744 | $7,530 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
46% of its giving went to organizations in Washington. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Washington.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lopker Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 27 W Anapamu St 347, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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