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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.

$404k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$118k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$485kEducation$390kCrime & Legal$366kYouth Development$184kEnvironment$53kHousing & Shelter$29kRecreation & Sports$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $178,943, the rows itemized in this filing. The $404,173 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $225,230 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$16,666
Median grant
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States reached
$172M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S RESOURCE AND REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYCRIS: $216k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYCRIS: $164k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYCRIS: $82k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Cottage Health’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cottage Healthlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 14 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$2.6M
$719k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $463k · revenue +30%
  • CI
    CALM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $366k · revenue +28%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $316k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $168k · revenue -4%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2022 · $64k
  • LV
    Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +32%
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
Salud Para La Gente

To provide high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.

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2
California School-Age Consortium Inc

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…

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3
Institute for Public Strategies

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…

Health
4
Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County Inc

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:…

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5
East Bay Agency for Children

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.

Health
6
Union of Pan Asian Communities

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…

Human Services
7
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

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…

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8
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County

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.

Community Improvement
9
Scripps Health

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)

Health
10
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento

The mission of the child abuse prevention council of sacramento (capc) is to reduce child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
12
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION INC: $344,167 · OtherORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP REGION…ALLAN HANCOCK JOINT CCD: $182,028 · OtherALLAN HANCOCK JOINT CCDAUNT BERTHA A PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $117,500 · OtherAUNT BERTHA A PUBLIC BENEFIT COR…SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPT: $64,314 · OtherSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPTLompoc Unified School Dist: $42,409 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $41,964 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $38,000 · Other+9 more: $135,255 · Other+9 moreSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $315,654 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORH…Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $175,351 · HealthCouncil on Alcoholism &…FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY: $122,796 · HealthFIGHTING BACK SANTA MAR…Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc: $60,000 · HealthLompoc Valley Community…AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $35,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $168,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UN…CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $157,119 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHILDRE…Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $100,736 · EducationIsla Vista Youth Pr…Harding School Foundation Inc: $89,000 · EducationHarding School Foun…ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT: $60,000 · EducationALTERNATIVES TO VIO…Santa Barbara Education Foundation: $25,500 · EducationFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $462,954 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AG…SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $55,000 · Human ServicesSANTA YNEZ VALLEY…+2 more: $19,904 · Human ServicesCALM INC: $365,528 · Crime & LegalCALM INCWilderness Youth Project Inc: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $53,740 · Youth DevelopmentLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $52,610 · Environment
Other$965,637Health$708,801Education$600,355Human Services$537,858Crime & Legal$365,528Youth Development$183,740Environment$52,610

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $462,954 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCALM INC: $365,528 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION INC: $344,167 over 4y, 11% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $315,654 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $175,351 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $168,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $157,119 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY: $122,796 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $100,736 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHarding School Foundation Inc: $89,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetLompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT: $60,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $55,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $53,740 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $52,610 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Indian Health & Services: $27,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $25,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANTA MARIA SWIM CLUB INC: $24,365 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT): $14,740 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF OPERATING ROOM NURSES INC: $10,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $9,904 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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…Santa Barbara Cottage…Hutton Foundation Dba…Towbes FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…James S Bower Foundat…Fund for Santa Barbar…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Goleta Valley Cottage…Women's Fund of Santa…United Way of Santa B…The McCune Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA47× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cottage Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cottage Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 35 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 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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