The Garland and Brenda Reiter
Watsonville, CA · EIN 26-1413209. Reported 107 grants totalling $584,146 to 54 organizations 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. The Garland and Brenda Reiter 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $393 and the largest $40,000. 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. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club | Oxnard, CA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oceana | Washington, DC | $39,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Santa Cruz Island Foundation | Carpenteria, CA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Direct Relief International | Santa Barbara, CA | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Channelkeeper | Santa Barbara, CA | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Oxnard & Port Hueneme | Oxnard, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food Forward | North Hollywood, CA | $23,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | Santa Barbara, CA | $23,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Africa Schools of Kenya | Santa Barbara, CA | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Red Cross | Boone, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Webb Schools | Claremont, CA | $19,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Moxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation | Santa Barbara, CA | $18,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lotusland | Santa Barbara, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Heal the Ocean | Santa Barbara, CA | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cottage Hospital | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Montecito Trails Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Crane School | Santa Barbara, CA | $11,393 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Lawrence University | Canton, NY | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Santa Clara University | Santa Clara, CA | $9,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Heart Trust | Southport, CT | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| UC Santa Barbara Foundation - Santa Cruz Reserve | Santa Barbara, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Youth Sailing | Santa Barbara, CA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brothers and Sisters of Israel | Bryn Mawr, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Jose Children's Discovery Museum | San Jose, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ocean Conservancy | Washington, DC | $4,640 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carpinteria Arts Center | Carpenteria, CA | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Storyteller Children's Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ganna Walska Lotusland | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glioblastoma Research Organization | Miami, FL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners Youth Well | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| In Defense of Animals | San Rafael, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Geographic Society | Washington, DC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Starfish Connection | Goleta, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Glioblastoma Foundation | Durham, NC | $2,961 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African Women Rising | Santa Barbara, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Webb School | Claremont, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bestfriends | Kanab, UT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Montecito Friends of the Library | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Nature Conservancy (sbnhm) | Sacramento, CA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Best Friends Animal Society | Kanab, UT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Oxnard | Oxnard, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nature Conservancy California Program | Arlington, VA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Road Dogs | Lomita, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Sacramento, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History | Santa Barbara, CA | $928 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sbnmh | Sacramento, CA | $924 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fremont High School Alumni Foundation La Plaza De Cultura Y Artes | Los Angeles, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vna Health Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
25 of 54 (46%) 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 68%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
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.
- Oceana
SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP - The Red Cross
DONATION FOR UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS - Moxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation
MUSEUM STEAM EDUCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY - UC Santa Barbara Foundation - Santa Cruz Reserve
UCSB'S SANTA CRUZ ISLAND RESERVE & FIELD STATION - Heal the Ocean
GENERAL FUND - IMAGINARY GALA 2023 - Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
NEW EXHIBITS FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 69 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $83,033 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $121,728 | $3,500 |
| 2023 | 29 | $142,885 | $2,961 |
| 2024 | 31 | $236,500 | $5,000 |
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.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Garland and Brenda Reiter has 1 of them, worth $1,000. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara University | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 80% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- 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 The Garland and Brenda Reiter's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 411 Walker Street, Watsonville, CA, 95076. 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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