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Cottage Health
It is the mission of Cottage Health to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $178,943 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $404,173 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $225,230 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUNT BERTHA A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION | $117,500 |
| CHILD ABUSE LISTENING MEDIATION | $19,584 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY EDUCATION OFFICE | $16,666 |
| ASSOCIATION OF OPERATING ROOM NURSES INC | $10,700 |
| CARPINTERIA CHILDRENS PROJECT | $7,826 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $6,667 |
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 (FY20–22, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 7% of Cottage Health’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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY3× · 2020–2022 · $463k · revenue +30%
- CICALM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $366k · revenue +28%
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS3× · 2020–2022 · $316k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $168k · revenue -4%
- SBSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPTone grant, 2022 · $64k
- LVLompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +32%
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.
To provide high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Institute of Public Strategies (IPS) is a nonprofit corporation that receives its funding from local and federal governmental agencies and private foundations, through long-term grants or contracts to provide community-level services…
Mission Statement: Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County addresses the causes of poverty, empowering low-income people to achieve self-sufficiency through community-based collaborations and programs.Vision Statement:…
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
To improve the general well-being and education of the asian, pacific islander and other ethnic communities of san diego county. upac recognizes the diverse ethnic and cultural identities and strengths of these communities and their need…
Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…
The child abuse prevention council (capc) strives to promote the safety of children and prevent child abuse by raising community awareness, educating our community and providing resources and support to families.
Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)
The mission of the child abuse prevention council of sacramento (capc) is to reduce child abuse and neglect.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Alternatives to Violence Project Sb Alternatives to Violence Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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
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 FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wilderness Youth Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner ↗
- Who funds Harding School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds American Indian Health & Services ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA SWIM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF OPERATING ROOM NURSES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
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 · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · The McCune 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 Cottage Health 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.
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.