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Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

Provide cash grants and free consulting to grassroots organizations in santa barbara county.

$792k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$734kHealth$482kEducation$374kArts & Culture$329kYouth Development$305kCrime & Legal$297kEnvironment$237kHuman Services$228kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

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
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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, $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.

area typical 9%805 UndocuFund: $10k → 10%MICOP: $10k → 10%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT (MICOP): $10k → 10%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT (MICOP): $10k → 10%Family Service Agency: $15k → 14%Awakening Giantz Inc: $10k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE: $30k → 14%MixtecoIndigena Community Or: $10k → 14%Children and Family Resource: $10k → 14%Children and Family Resour: $10k → 14%SAN MARCOS KIDS HELPING KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AWAKENING GIANTZ: $6k → 14%Family Service Agency: $24k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $13k → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%Family Service Agency: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE: $10k → 14%Family Service Agency: $10k → 14%Family Service Agen: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $3k → 14%Family Service Agency of SB: $9k → 14%The Seventh Generation Fund f: $10k → 14%Barbareo Chumash Tribal Coun: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 61 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
114

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+48%

Still filing today

79%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther

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 NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +390% · 79% of their budget
  • FL
    Future Leaders of America
    4× · 2017–2023 · $107k · revenue +935%
  • CA
    CAUSE ACTION FUND
    3× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +61% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA LEGAL DEFENSE C
    one grant, 2019 · $59k
  • FF
    FOOD FROM THE HEART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +120%
  • CI
    CAUSE Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $42k

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.

1
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

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.

2
Southern California Immigration Project

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.

International
3
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
South Coast Community Media Access Center Dba Tv Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County

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.

Civil Rights
6
Santa Cruz Local Inc

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.

7
Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County Inc

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.

Human Services
8
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
9
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics

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.

Health
10
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
11
Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center

Puertas Abiertas is a trusted home and advocate that strengthens the Latino Community through multicultural programs and services.

Health
12
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr13%13%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%7%<5yr13%15%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

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 6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
9/155
the rest of the field
11%
224/2,117

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/108
Grantees still filing
74/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $76,210 · OtherSanta Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center — $91,000 · OtherJust Communities Central Coast — $102,878 · OtherFuture Leaders of America — $107,408 · Other+127 more — $1,724,657 · Other+127 moreFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $77,155 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT — $51,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO IN…IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA CA INC — $46,168 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT …FOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $44,693 · Human ServicesFOOD FROM …CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesCUYAMA VAL…CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN A…805 UNDOCUFUND — $20,000 · Human Services805 UNDOCU…SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesAWAKENING GIANTZ INC — $15,530 · Human Services+4 more — $30,600 · Human Services+4 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST — $72,429 · HealthPLANNED P…Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc — $37,264 · HealthSanctuary…MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $33,256 · HealthMENTAL HE…SANTA BARBARA RESPONSE NETWORK — $32,972 · HealthSANTA BAR…Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $29,520 · HealthDoctors W…SAVIE HEALTH — $28,500 · HealthSAVIE HEA…Standing Together to End Sexual Assault — $26,613 · HealthStanding …GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $20,914 · HealthGWENDOLYN…Community Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc — $20,000 · HealthCommunity…SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA — $19,503 · HealthSARAH HOU…+2 more — $17,000 · HealthMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMITTEE OF SANTA BARBARA — $83,300 · Arts & CultureMARTIN LU…Healing Justice Santa Barbara — $68,500 · Arts & CultureHealing J…CULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF THE SMV — $63,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL …Comite Guelaguetza International Benefit Organization Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureComite Gu…CARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER — $26,775 · Arts & CultureCARPINTER…NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $18,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN …+4 more — $23,794 · Arts & Culture+4 moreSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK — $141,348 · Community ImprovementCAUSE ACTION FUND — $92,662 · Community ImprovementCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy — $23,321 · Community ImprovementINTERFAITH INITIATIVE OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $22,128 · Community Improvement+1 more — $3,800 · Community ImprovementGATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $70,000 · EducationALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT — $64,753 · EducationFREEDOM 4 YOUTH — $46,500 · EducationCAUSE Inc — $41,962 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $8,740 · EducationSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $120,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $40,389 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY UNITED WAY — $31,592 · PhilanthropyROUTE ONE FARMERS MARKET — $16,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,102,153Human Services$363,646Health$337,971Arts & Culture$319,369Community Improvement$283,259Education$271,955Philanthropy$207,981

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK — $141,348 over 6y, 79% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFuture Leaders of America — $107,408 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetJust Communities Central Coast — $102,878 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCAUSE ACTION FUND — $92,662 over 3y, 41% of budgetSanta Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center — $91,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMITTEE OF SANTA BARBARA — $83,300 over 2y, 56% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $77,155 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST — $72,429 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $70,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHealing Justice Santa Barbara — $68,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetPACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION — $67,323 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEQUALITECH — $67,132 over 2y, 29% of budgetALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT SB ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT — $64,753 over 2y, 47% of budgetCULTURAL AND CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF THE SMV — $63,500 over 4y, 27% of budgetC4 Lompoc Collective Cultures Creat — $63,070 over 2y, 33% of budgetAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr — $59,268 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBLUE SKY SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER — $53,740 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT — $51,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH — $46,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetIMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA CA INC — $46,168 over 3y, 17% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $44,693 over 1y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $42,501 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $40,389 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc — $37,264 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $33,256 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESPONSE NETWORK — $32,972 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY UNITED WAY — $31,592 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $29,520 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSAVIE HEALTH — $28,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE LITTLE HOUSE BY THE PARK CO FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY — $25,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetLa Casa De La Raza Inc — $24,343 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy — $23,321 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc — $22,882 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS — $22,881 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetINTERFAITH INITIATIVE OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $22,128 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $21,350 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $20,914 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget805 UNDOCUFUND — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCONFLICT SOLUTIONS CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCommunity Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLES JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL — $18,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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 FoundationCA139.3× affinity82 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    30report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 183 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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