How much did FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

givescarecesareanlegalvbacotherslearning

2020

ildfleadtrainingawarenesseducationaccessleadership

2021

sbcansocial economicfosteringhomelesseconomic justicecause actioncoast

2022

mlkspring advocacycelebrationwomen'sequityaccessmaria

2023

movement buildingstop hate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $38k
$10k–50k18 grants · $312k
$50k–250k2 grants · $115k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

HEALING JUSTICE SANTA BARBARA (HJSB)$60,000
COLLECTIVE CULTURES CREATING CHANGE - LOMPOC$54,570
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMITTEE SANTA BARBARA$48,300
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST$30,000
CAUSE ACTION FUND$30,000
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY$30,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE SANTA MARIA-LOM$30,000
SANTA BARBARA ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER SOLIDARITY NETWORK (SBAAPISN)$18,380
GATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$15,000
805UNDOCUFUND$10,000
SANTA BARBARA NAACP$10,000
SAVIE HEALTH$10,000
LOMPOC VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION$10,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK (SBCAN)$10,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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 6% of FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 59 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126

Total granted

$2.3M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+44%

Still filing today

78%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

SB
Santa Barbara County Action N
6× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +390% · 36% of their budget
CA
Cause Action Fund
3× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +61% · 41% of their budget
ST
Standing Together to End Sexu
4× · 2017–2023 · $87k · revenue +935%

Funded once

SB
SANTA BARBARA LEGAL DEFENSE C
one grant, 2019 · $59k
SB
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $50k
FF
FOOD FROM THE HEARTgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +91%

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

04Your field

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.

Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in Santa Barbara County.

Philanthropy

Santa Barbara International Film

Sbiff's mission is to engage, enrich, and inspire people through the power of film. sbiff celebrates the art of cinema and provides impactful educational experiences for their local, national, and global communities.

Arts & Culture

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.

Arts & Culture

Santa Barbara South Coast

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

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Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.

Education

Santa Barbara County Trails Council

Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.

Recreation & Sports

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

To be the recognized flagship institution for information on the Santa Barbara Channel by showcasing our rich maritime history, presenting inspirational programs, and promoting insightful disussions about the future of our coastal…

Arts & Culture

Southern California Public Radio

Noncommercial educational public radio production and broadcasting.

Arts & Culture

South Coast Community Media Access

Tvsb serves santa barbara county. our purpose is to empower local agencies, individuals and organizations through media literacy training, access to resources and tools to share content. tvsb operates two community media channels and…

Arts & Culture

Southern California Immigration Project

Southern CaliorniaImmigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono and low bono legal services to victims of human and civil rights violations.

International

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Health

CalMatters

To improve Californias democracy by making its government more transparent and accountable and giving Californians the information they need to understand and engage with that government.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Center and the most unlike its peers is Usa Green Communities. 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 22 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

8/154

the rest of the field

191/2,118

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.

06the grantee network

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/104

Grantees still filing

74/104

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,185,688Arts & Culture$319,369Human Services$308,227Health$284,358Education$271,955Community Improvement$253,259Environment$183,478

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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA129.1× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Hutton Foundation · Towbes Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · Ventura County Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family 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 organisation FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SB Alternatives to Violence P.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 815079846 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SB Alternatives to Violence P, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fund for Santa Barbara Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fund for Santa Barbara Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fund for Santa Barbara Inc?

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FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fund for Santa Barbara Inc?

More from the funding graph