California · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $408k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $54M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $408k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $319k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $281k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $173k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $184k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $230k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $285k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Creative Project | $139,675 | 8 | 2% |
| San Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters | $117,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | $111,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association | $89,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Hs Band Booster Corp | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dos Pueblos Band Boosters | $74,870 | 7 | 35% |
| Notes For Notes Inc | $71,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $65,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Carpinteria Unified School District | $61,569 | 2 | n/a |
| The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College | $61,500 | 5 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation
- How much does Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation give?
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation reported 38 itemized grants totaling $408,006, out of $585,239 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (28%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Childrens Creative Project ($140k), San Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters ($117k), Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara ($111k).
- Does Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation based?
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation is based in CA.
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