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Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc at a glance

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Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc

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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.0MHousing & Shelter$28k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY$22,500
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
CARE 4PAWS INC$20,000
ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$15,000
RESQCATS$15,000
COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE$10,000
HAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY$8,000
SHADOWS FUND INC$5,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION$5,000
VOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALS (VIVA)$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $15k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $15k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $10k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $10k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $10k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $10k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $7k → 14%COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$1.0M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+34%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CARE4Paws Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +437%
  • WH
    WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +49%
  • AS
    Animal Shelter Assistance Program
    8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SY
    SANTA YNEZ HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • KP
    K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
3
Raskels Rescue
Animals
4
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
7
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
8
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
9
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
10
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
11
California Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue and place homeless animals

Animals
12
Santa Cruz Humane Society Inc

To provide a no kill shelter for homeless pets and promote adoption to good homes.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the most unlike its peers is Lil Orphan Hammies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARE4Paws Inc: $163,000 · AnimalsCARE4Paws IncWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $139,500 · AnimalsWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INCAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $111,500 · AnimalsAnimal Shelter Assistance ProgramSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,853 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSRESQCATS INC: $96,000 · AnimalsRESQCATS INCSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 · AnimalsSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC: $41,575 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INCSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $37,500 · Animals+3 more: $33,000 · AnimalsSANTA MARIA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · OtherSANTA MARIA HUMANE SO…ANIMALS IN NEED: $40,000 · OtherANIMALS IN NEEDDOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP: $32,000 · OtherDOG ADOPTION AND WELF…OLD YELLER RANCH RESCUE: $27,500 · OtherOLD YELLER RANCH RESC…VOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-VALLEY ANIMALS (VIVA): $18,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS FOR INTER-…ANIMALS IN NEED FUND: $15,000 · OtherANIMALS IN NEED FUNDSANTA YNEZ HUMANE SOCIETY: $7,000 · OtherCOMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $81,500 · Human Services
Animals$772,928Other$199,500Human Services$81,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $163,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $139,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $111,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100,853 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRESQCATS INC: $96,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE: $81,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC: $41,575 over 5y, 12% of budgetSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED: $37,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetDOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP: $32,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY: $21,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetANIMALS IN NEED FUND: $15,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds RESQCATS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ANIMAL CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds ANIMALS IN NEED FUND ↗
  • Who funds LIL ORPHAN HAMMIES ↗
  • Who funds K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Bruce Ronald & Phylli…Bragg Health Foundati…Patricia Bragg Founda…The Wood-Claeyssens F…May and Bill Allison …Ethel Frends Charitab…Hutton Foundation Dba…Balin Hildegard Chari…Walter J & Holly O Th…Roy and Ida Eagle Fou…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Bruce Ronald & Phyllis M Trust · Bragg Health Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · May and Bill Allison Foundation · Ethel Frends Charitable Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Balin Hildegard Charit Tua-Main · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Roy and Ida Eagle Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Animal Charitable Foundation Santa Barbara County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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