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Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation

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.

$95k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $19,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,500 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$595k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OXNARD FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION$10,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$6,000
UBAKA U RWANDA$3,000
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION$500
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SANTA MARIA CITY FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

03Your 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 Firefighters Alliance

Donate funds to, or purchase equipment for, the santa barbara city and santa barbara county fire departments in the state of california.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Santa Barbara Athlete Fund

The primary function of the organization is to provide eligible low-income high school-aged student athletes in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, California, with grants paid to local athletic facilities in order to provide them…

Recreation & Sports
3
Santa Barbara County Deputy Sheriffs Foundation

The mission of the Santa Barbara Deputy Sheriffs Foundation is to provide critical resources and vital support to improve public safety, officer readiness, and enhance the quality of life for the 450+ men and women who have answered the…

Public Benefit
4
Santa Barbara South Coast Firefighter Foundation Inc

The primary purpose of the south coast firefighter foundation is to support injured/deceased firefighters and their families; educate the community about safety issues; provide community programs and support the carpinteria summerland fire…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Sebastopol Firefighters Foundation

The specific purpose of the Foundation is to support the Sebastopol Fire Department and its firefighters; the activities and needs of the community of Sebastopol; and in cases of disaster and/or traumatic events, other first responders or…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
San Rafael Fire Foundation

The San Rafael Fire Foundation supports our firefighters and paramedics by funding technology, equipment, training and public outreach beyond what is allocated by the City to maintain our department as a Class-1 Fire Department.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
The L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund
Education
8
Ucsb Charitable Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Cal Fire Benevolent Foundation

This public benefit corporation is organized exclusively to engage in lawful charitable and educational activities supporting the families of firefighters and other firefighting suppression personnel in times of financial need or hardship:…

Human Services
10
Ventura County Fire Dept Benefit Fund

To Provide Assistance to members of the Ventura County Fire Department in time of need

11
Salinas Police Foundation

To provide community programs which support law enforcement and crime prevention needs for the community of SalinasTo provide training and equipment for the Police Department of the City of Salinas, California.

Crime & Legal
12
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Benevolent Posse

Support the santa barbara county sheriff's department

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Villa La Paz. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $132,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA+2 more — $6,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIO…SANTA BARBARA CITY FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FUND INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA CITY FIRE…GALS GIVE BACK INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGALS GIVE BACK INCGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthOxnard Firefighters Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVentura Fire Foundation Inc — $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSANTA BARBARA CTY FIREFIGHTERS BEN FND — $500 · Public Safety & DisasterVILLA LA PAZ — $10,000 · InternationalSANTA MARIA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCALM INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA — $3,243 · Youth Development
Other$138,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$12,500Public Safety & Disaster$12,500International$10,000Human Services$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Youth Development$3,243

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 budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $132,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOxnard Firefighters Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetVILLA LA PAZ — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CITY FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGALS GIVE BACK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSANTA MARIA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCALM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA — $3,243 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVentura Fire Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CTY FIREFIGHTERS BEN FND — $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Junior League of Santa Barbara · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Firefighters Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%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
    2report 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.

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    How do I get to Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $54k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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