· Community foundation
Fund for Santa Barbara Inc
Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $463,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $792,119 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $328,339 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 $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $312k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALING JUSTICE SANTA BARBARA (HJSB) | $60,000 |
| COLLECTIVE CULTURES CREATING CHANGE - LOMPOC | $54,570 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMITTEE SANTA BARBARA | $48,300 |
| CAUSE ACTION FUND | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE SANTA MARIA-LOM | $30,000 |
| ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST | $30,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER SOLIDARITY NETWORK (SBAAPISN) | $18,380 |
| GATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA NAACP | $10,000 |
| 805UNDOCUFUND | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT (MICOP) | $10,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK (SBCAN) | $10,000 |
| SB ACT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 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.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 7 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK6× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +390% · 79% of their budget
- FLFuture Leaders of America4× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +935%
- CACAUSE ACTION FUND3× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +61% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA LEGAL DEFENSE Cone grant, 2019 · $59k
- FFFOOD FROM THE HEART INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +120%
- CICAUSE Incone grant, 2019 · $42k
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.
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.
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To provide citizens with access to television and other electronic media resources in order to facilitate public dialogue, free speech and participatory democracy; to foster local creativity, education and culture; and to reflect our…
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
Cac serves santa barbara county's vulnerable populations through education and coordinated services so they may achieve economic stability, improve overall well-being and thrive.
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…
The mission of santa barbara neighborhood clinics is to provide high quality, comprehensive and affordable healthcare to all people regardless of ability to pay, in an environment that fosters respect, compassion and dignity.
To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.
Puertas Abiertas is a trusted home and advocate that strengthens the Latino Community through multicultural programs and services.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Community Action of Santa Maria Valley 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
108 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. 108 of the 183 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Future Leaders of America ↗
- Who funds Just Communities Central Coast ↗
- Who funds CAUSE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMITTEE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Healing Justice Santa Barbara ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUALITECH ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF THE SMV ↗
- Who funds C4 Lompoc Collective Cultures Creat ↗
- Who funds Access Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr ↗
- Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM 4 YOUTH ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA CA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAUSE Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PRIDE AND EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
- Who funds Comite Guelaguetza International Benefit Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESPONSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY ↗
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 · 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
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 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.
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.