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Junior League of Santa Barbara

The JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SANTA BARBARA is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$612kPhilanthropy$50kYouth Development$45kHealth$23kCommunity Improvement$17kArts & Culture$16kEducation$14kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$633k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$50,000
GIRLS ROCK SB$10,000
FUTURE LEADERS OF AMERICA$10,000
FREEDOM 4 YOUTH$10,000
COMMUNIFY$10,000
AWAKENING GIANTZ$10,000
LEAP (ISLA VISTA YOUTH PROJECTS)$8,000
CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES$8,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR YOUTHWELL$8,000
ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM$6,000
LIGHTS UP THEATRE COMPANY$6,000
SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$5,000
NEW BEGINNINGS$5,000
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE$5,000
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $584k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $2k → 15%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $106k → 10%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $2k → 14%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $69k → 10%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $35k → 10%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $5k → 10%ANGELS FOSTER CARE: $1k → 14%4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $323k → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $8k → 14%AWAKENING GIANTZ: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT'S: $2k → 14%COMMUNIFY: $10k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS: $5k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Junior League of Santa Barbara’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Junior League of Santa Barbaralessmore 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$612k · 17 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$612k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • 4K
    4 KIDS 2 KIDS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $538k · revenue +33%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +18%
  • N
    NBCC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +942%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARVEST COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA TEEN LEGAL CLINIC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +30% · 53% of their budget
  • NA
    NOAH'S ANCHORAGE
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
2
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County

The mission of family service agency is to strengthen and advocate for families and individuals of all ages and diversities, helping to create and preserve a healthy community.

Human Services
3
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
4
Santa Barbara Response Network

To create a safer community by creating a climate of resilience, and to offer psychological first aid and support from traumatic events.

Health
5
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County

The child abuse prevention council (capc) strives to promote the safety of children and prevent child abuse by raising community awareness, educating our community and providing resources and support to families.

Community Improvement
6
California Parenting Institute

California parenting institute (cpi dba child parent institute) is a family resource center, serving families throughout sonoma county since 1978. our mission is to end child abuse and strengthen the health of children, parents, and…

Human Services
7
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
8
South Bay Center for Counseling

The south bay center for counseling (the "center") is a publicly supported, california non-profit corporation serving people of all ages throughout the south bay and greater los angeles. it was incorporated on january 8,1974 to provide…

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9
Star View Children and Family Services

Starview children & family services provides social and mental health services in california. the services provided will embody a commitment to high clinical standards and quality improvements to assist clients to achieve their maximum…

Human Services
10
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley

To partner with all members of the santa maria community to achieve resilience against substance use, reductions in violence and promote a healthy and safe environment for our youth and families.

Health
11
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
12
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc; the most unlike its peers is Mosaic Therapy Collective. 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

49 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. 49 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $538,103 · Human Services4 KIDS 2 KIDS+12 more: $61,332 · Human Services+12 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $10,000 · EducationIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $8,000 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $4,500 · EducationAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA TEEN LEGAL CLINIC: $3,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $1,900 · EducationGIRLS ROCK SB: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLIGHTS UP THEATER INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $2,200 · Arts & CultureCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCasa Serena: $5,000 · HealthCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $4,000 · HealthGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $4,000 · HealthStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $4,000 · HealthAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $2,000 · HealthDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $1,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $9,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $8,000 · Community ImprovementSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherHARVEST COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherNOAH'S ANCHORAGE: $3,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION: $2,000 · OtherFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC: $2,000 · OtherFuture Leaders of America: $10,000 · OtherSOLID FOUNDATIONS: $2,000 · OtherTHE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958: $6,500 · OtherPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $2,000 · OtherCALM INC: $3,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,990 · OtherMOSAIC THERAPY COLLECTIVE: $4,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $3,500 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherFOR THE CHILDREN: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $3,500 · Other
Human Services$599,435Philanthropy$50,000Education$31,400Arts & Culture$26,200Health$20,000Community Improvement$17,000Other$59,490

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 budget4 KIDS 2 KIDS: $538,103 over 5y, 24% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNBCC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS' HELPERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa Serena: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOSAIC THERAPY COLLECTIVE: $4,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA TEEN LEGAL CLINIC: $3,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,990 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLID FOUNDATIONS: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CARE NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE: $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $1,832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Santa Barbara Foundat…Williams-Corbett Foun…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Latkin Charitable Fou…Towbes FoundationWomen's Fund of Santa…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…James S Bower Foundat…June G Outhwaite Char…The McCune Foundation
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA81.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The McCune 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 Junior League of Santa Barbara funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Santa Barbara. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Junior League of Santa Barbara?

    Find your warmest path to Junior League of Santa Barbara through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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