· Public charity
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.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OXNARD FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $6,000 |
| UBAKA U RWANDA | $3,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (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.
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.
Donate funds to, or purchase equipment for, the santa barbara city and santa barbara county fire departments in the state of california.
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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.
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:…
To Provide Assistance to members of the Ventura County Fire Department in time of need
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.
Support the santa barbara county sheriff's department
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oxnard Firefighters Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLA LA PAZ ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CITY FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GALS GIVE BACK INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds Ventura Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CTY FIREFIGHTERS BEN FND ↗
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: 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.
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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