California · Community foundation
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
- $792k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $464k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Fund for Santa Barbara Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $464k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $443k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $405k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $225k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $288k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $785k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $803k | 72% |
| FY2017 | 50 | $354k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara County Action Network | $141,348 | 6 | 79% |
| Future Leaders of America | $107,408 | 4 | 7% |
| Just Communities Central Coast | $102,878 | 5 | 2% |
| Cause Action Fund | $92,662 | 3 | 41% |
| Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center | $91,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Committee of Santa Barbara | $83,300 | 2 | 56% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $77,155 | 4 | 0% |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | $76,210 | 4 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood California Central Coast | $72,429 | 4 | 0% |
| Gateway Educational Services | $70,000 | 4 | 13% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · Weingart Foundation
How this is measured
About Fund for Santa Barbara Inc
- How much does Fund for Santa Barbara Inc give?
- Fund for Santa Barbara Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $463,780, out of $792,119 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fund for Santa Barbara Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (19%), Health (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are Fund for Santa Barbara Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Santa Barbara County Action Network ($141k), Future Leaders of America ($107k), Just Communities Central Coast ($103k).
- Does Fund for Santa Barbara Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Santa Barbara Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, The McCune Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Fund for Santa Barbara Inc based?
- Fund for Santa Barbara Inc is based in CA.
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