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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $463,780, the rows itemized in this filing. The $792,119 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $328,339 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 $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
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST$30,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE SANTA MARIA-LOM$30,000
CAUSE ACTION FUND$30,000
SANTA BARBARA ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER SOLIDARITY NETWORK (SBAAPISN)$18,380
GATEWAY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$15,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK$10,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ACTION NETWORK (SBCAN)$10,000
SAVIE HEALTH$10,000
SANTA BARBARA NAACP$10,000
SB ACT$10,000
ROUTE ONE FARMERS MARKET$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%805 UndocuFund: $10k → 10%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT (MICOP): $10k → 10%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 Resour: $10k → 14%Children and Family Resource: $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%Family Service Agency: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%Family Service Agency: $10k → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 14%Family Service Agen: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%IMMIGRANT HOPE: $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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Fund for Santa Barbara Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 94%.

Fund for Santa Barbara Inclessmore 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

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

+54%
+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
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

  • 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 +129%
  • CI
    CAUSE Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
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
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
2
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.

—
3
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
4
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
5
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.

—
6
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
7
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
8
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
9
Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center

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

Health
10
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
11
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
12
Legal Link

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

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Community Action of Santa Maria Valley; 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.
05the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/108
Grantees still filing
72/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT): $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCONFLICT SOLUTIONS CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPEOPLES JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCommunity Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget805 UNDOCUFUND: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSan Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace: $18,500 over 2y, 4.4% 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…The McCune FoundationHutton Foundation Dba…Towbes FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…James S Bower Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Patricia Bragg Founda…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Women's Fund of Santa…Santa Barbara Cottage…Weingart Foundation
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

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 Fund for Santa Barbara Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Santa Barbara Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%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
    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, 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 183 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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