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Montecito Community Foundation
The purpose of the Montecito Community Foundation is to support a strong Montecito community and serve as a resource for philanthropy.
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 6 grants below total $67,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $75,490 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,490 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Montecito Library | $15,000 |
| Montecito Family YMCA | $15,000 |
| Casa Del Herrero | $10,000 |
| Montecito Trails Foundation | $10,000 |
| Montecito Association | $10,000 |
| A to Z Cooking School | $7,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 purpose of the Montecito Community Foundation is to support a strong Montecito community and serve as a resource for philanthropy.
Our mission is to protect public trail access build and maintain safe and sustainable trails and promote public engagement in land stewardship and trail use for all types of outdoor recreation.
Save mount diablo's mission is to preserve mount diablo's peaks, surrounding foothills, and watersheds; and its sustaining diablo range, through land acquisition and preservation strategies designed to protect the mountain's natural…
Recruiting and training volunteers that implement changes in the cities of Monterey County that include the establishment and operation of Community Gardens; the planting of tees on urban street; teaching citizens how to reduce the amount…
Our mission, through preservation and restoration of its buildings and grounds, seeks to connect the past with the present by offering programs that will educate and enrich all audiences, and offer an intimate historic community gathering…
Founded in 1916, the garden club of santa barbara is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to encouraging the knowledge and enjoyment of gardening, the art of flower design, the protection of our environment and native plants, the…
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.
Maintain and improve Santa Barbara trails to reduce risk and increase the enjoyment of all users.
The purpose of the santa barbara county genealogical society (sbcgs) is to promote study and research in genealogy by providing assistance and educational opportunities for those who are interested in pursuing their family history.
To provide relief to those facing hardship based upon financial or other need, with the primary focus on first responders and their families and all children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montecito Protective & Improvement Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO HISTORICAL ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTECITO PROTECTIVE & IMPROVEMENT ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK ↗
- Who funds APPLES TO ZUCCHINI COOKING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
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: The Spivey Family Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Montecito Community Foundation 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.