· Public charity
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $709k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cottage Clinical Network | $2,000,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION & TRUST | $812,171 |
| SBCC Foundation | $343,398 |
| PATH PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS | $337,259 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCYCRIS | $254,361 |
| CHILD ABUSE LISTENING MEDIATION | $196,388 |
| SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS | $100,000 |
| DIGNITYMOVES | $100,000 |
| WILLBRIDGE OF SANTA BARBARA | $92,200 |
| Good Samaritan Shelter | $75,464 |
| SANCTUARY CENTERS OF SANTA BARBARA INC | $75,000 |
| LOMPOC VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE ORG | $70,050 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION | $49,738 |
| SARAH HOUSE SANTA BARBARA | $48,900 |
| MEDICAL STAFF FUND OF CHS | $32,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $703k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $623k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +177%
- PPATH8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +361%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +226%
Funded once
- NNBCCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +485%
- AAAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +49%
- SYSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLEone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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To provide high quality, comprehensive, and cost effective healthcare responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
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Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.
Our mission is to improve the health of our patients and the community and advocate the feminist goals of social, political, & economic equality.
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The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Interim, inc.'s mission is to provide services and affordable housing to supporting members of our community with mental illness in building productive and satisfying lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and the most unlike its peers is Thresholds to Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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. 42 of the 51 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 SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds WILLBRIDGE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds Medical Staff of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLDS TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUCCESSFUL AGING ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Cottage Health · Towbes Foundation · St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
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 Cottage Hospital 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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