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Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation

To manage, maintain, and renovate the santa barbara bowl, to provide music and performing arts events in the santa barbara community, to promote cultural and artistic awareness in santa barbara county, to present music and performing arts to local students.

$585k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$545kYouth Development$146kHousing & Shelter$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kPhilanthropy$12kCommunity Improvement$11kHealth$6k
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $408,006 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $585,239 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $177,233 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 $10k25 grants · $190k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $218k
$8,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$28,000
CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT$27,300
CARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$26,069
THE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958$20,255
SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,000
INFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATION$14,722
LOMPOC HIGH SCHOOL$13,500
RIGHETTI HIGH SCHOOL$13,490
CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL THEATER$12,942
LIGHT'S UP THEATER COMPANY$12,500
ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA$12,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITH GRACE FISHER FDN$10,900
BUELLTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,531
DOS PUEBLOS BAND BOOSTERS$9,500
SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL BAND$9,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITH GRACE FISHER FDN: $11k → 14%ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $13k → 14%ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $12k → 14%ADAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $12k → 14%LOMPOC HIGH SCHOOL: $14k → 14%CABRILLO HIGH SCHOOL THEATER: $13k → 14%CARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $36k → 14%CERTAIN SPARKS MUSIC FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%CARPINTERIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%CARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $26k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $34k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $27k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTERS: $20k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTERS: $18k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTERS: $18k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $16k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $16k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTERS: $15k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTERS: $14k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $14k → 14%SAN MARCOS HS ROYAL BAND BOOSTER: $14k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $13k → 14%CHILDREN'S CREATIVE PROJECT: $13k → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY EDUCATION OFFICE: $11k → 14%SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCH: $30k → 14%SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY: $20k → 14%SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCH: $20k → 14%SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%MEDIA4GOOD INC: $15k → 14%ROCKSHOP ACADEMY: $11k → 14%SBCC FOUNDATION: $34k → 14%WASHINGTON SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORG: $17k → 14%LIGHT'S UP THEATER COMPANY: $13k → 14%LIGHT'S UP THEATER COMPANY: $13k → 14%LIGHT'S UP THEATER COMPANY: $12k → 14%LIGHT'S UP THEATER COMPANY: $11k → 14%COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $35k → 14%MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $15k → 14%PICKLEBERRY PIE INC: $11k → 14%MONTECITO UNION ELEM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 14%GIRLS ROCK SANTA BARBARA: $16k → 14%ARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC: $11k → 14%ORCUTT CHILDREN'S ARTS FOUNDATION: $14k → 14%RIGHETTI HIGH SCHOOL: $13k → 14%BUELLTON UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 34 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$1.7M
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

76%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CC
    CHILDRENS CREATIVE PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +42%
  • SM
    San Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters
    8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +79%
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $111k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • CE
    Carpinteria Education Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +78%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
San Bernardino Valley Concert Association
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2
Hermosa Beach Youth Music

To initiate and develop musci education programs for Hermosa Beach youth.

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3
San Marin High School Music Boosters

To support the performing arts and music programs at San Marin High School in Novato CA.

Education
4
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara Inc

To bring high quality classical musicians from around the globe to the santa barbara area to perform orchestral, vocal, solo instrumental, and chamber concerts.

Arts & Culture
5
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…

Arts & Culture
6
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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7
Mercury Music Foundation

Provide outstanding music programs for students aged 5 to 22 that can create a positive impact on their lives.

Education
8
Southern California Ballet Inc

To empower aspiring dancers to reach their full potential and to elevate the community through education programs and imaginative performances.

Arts & Culture
9
Santa Barbara High School Theater Foundation

The SBHS Theater Foundation was founded in 2005 with the mission to establish long-term, consistent support for the survival and growth of theatre arts at SBHS, and to create and maintain a state-of-the art theater complex at SBHS. For…

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10
Santa Clara Ballet Association

Stimulate and promote interest in ballet, provide high quality ballet performances at a reasonable cost to general public, while providing opportunities to local dancers, and enhancing cultural awareness and diversity in the South…

Arts & Culture
11
San Marcos Middle School Band Boosters Club

To Promote interest in music & education

Education
12
Cabrillo Instrumental Music Foundation

Promote education and the arts by supporting the student instrumental music program at cabrillo high school in lompoc, ca.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Dance Institute and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%12%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/62
the rest of the field
10%
230/2,210

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 61 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

San Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters — $117,000 · OtherSan Marcos High School Royal Band BoostersSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $111,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARASANTA BARBARA HS BAND BOOSTER CORP — $75,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA HS BAND BOOSTER CORPCARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $61,569 · OtherCARPINTERIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTCREATIVE NETWERK — $47,700 · OtherCREATIVE NETWERKSANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $47,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTLompoc Unified School Dist — $46,542 · OtherLompoc Unified School DistROYALS THEATRE PRODUCTION FUND — $44,000 · OtherROYALS THEATRE PRODUCTION FUNDSANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — $38,000 · OtherPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS Adams Elementary PTA — $37,400 · OtherCOLD SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $34,950 · Other+16 more — $160,891 · Other+16 moreCHILDRENS CREATIVE PROJECT — $139,675 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CREATIVE PROJECTSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $89,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONNotes For Notes Inc — $71,000 · Arts & CultureNotes For Notes IncSANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTE — $54,300 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTEACOMPAS INC DBA FLAMENCO SANTA BARBARA — $49,500 · Arts & CultureACOMPAS INC DBA FLAMENCO SANTA BARBARAMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $46,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WESTLIGHTS UP THEATER INC — $45,250 · Arts & CultureLIGHTS UP THEATER INCINFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $44,187 · Arts & CultureINFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATIONGIRLS ROCK SB — $35,454 · Arts & CultureBOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY — $31,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $182,248 · Arts & Culture+12 moreSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $65,500 · EducationSanta Barb…THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $61,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDA…Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc — $26,818 · EducationCarpinteri…WASHINGTON SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION WESTFIELD NJ INC — $16,667 · EducationWASHINGTON…SANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $11,500 · EducationSANTA BARB…+1 more — $6,000 · EducationDOS PUEBLOS BAND BOOSTERS — $74,870 · PhilanthropyDOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCARPINTERIA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $11,729 · PhilanthropyTHE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958 — $56,455 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,900 · Community ImprovementMOSAIC THERAPY COLLECTIVE — $6,000 · Social Science
Other$821,052Arts & Culture$788,114Education$187,985Philanthropy$111,599Housing & Shelter$56,455Community Improvement$10,900Social Science$6,000

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 budgetCHILDRENS CREATIVE PROJECT — $139,675 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSan Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters — $117,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $111,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $89,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDOS PUEBLOS BAND BOOSTERS — $74,870 over 7y, 35% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc — $71,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $65,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $61,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TURNER FOUNDATION - SINCE 1958 — $56,455 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA DANCE INSTITUTE — $54,300 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetACOMPAS INC DBA FLAMENCO SANTA BARBARA — $49,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetCREATIVE NETWERK — $47,700 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $46,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTS UP THEATER INC — $45,250 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetINFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $44,187 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetSANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — $38,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS Adams Elementary PTA — $37,400 over 3y, 15% of budgetGIRLS ROCK SB — $35,454 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetBOXTALES THEATRE COMPANY — $31,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCarpinteria Education Foundation Inc — $26,818 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetDOS PUEBLOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetPICKLEBERRY PIE INC — $24,400 over 3y, 14% of budgetARTS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM INC — $22,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCertain Sparks Music Foundation — $21,908 over 2y, 52% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC — $21,300 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FESTIVAL BALLET — $18,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION WESTFIELD NJ INC — $16,667 over 1y, 11% of budgetMEDIA4GOOD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetORCUTT CHILDRENS ART FOUNDATION INC — $13,640 over 1y, 16% of budgetCARPINTERIA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $11,729 over 2y, 38% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL — $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC — $11,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSB YOUTH MUSIC ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMONROE SCHOOL PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS — $7,997 over 1y, 16% of budgetSanta Barbara Strings — $6,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWashington School Parent Teacher Organization & Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMOSAIC THERAPY COLLECTIVE — $6,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CARPINTERIA LIBRARY — $5,178 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOPERA SANTA BARBARA — $5,000 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Williams-Corbett Foun…Fund for Santa Barbar…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Manitou FundJunior League of Sant…Audacious FoundationMosher FoundationRudi Schulte Family F…The Wood-Claeyssens F…The McIntyre Foundati…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA69.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Junior League of Santa Barbara · Audacious Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The McIntyre 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 Santa Barbara Bowl 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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