· Public charity
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
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.
The 4 grants below total $11,221,821 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,763,971 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $542,150 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
- $50k–250k2 grants · $312k
- $250k+2 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | $10,480,570 |
| Cottage Health | $429,251 |
| CSUCI FOUNDATION | $208,000 |
| Westmont College | $104,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 Cottage Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $160M · revenue +31%
- CHCottage Health5× · 2020–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +65%
- GVGoleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc2× · 2017–2021 · $3.7M · revenue +7% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue -8%
- SYSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundationone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue -7%
- GVGoleta Valley Cottage Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +37%
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.
It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to solicit, receive, invest, maintain and distribute funds for the support of charitable, scientific, and educational activities of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
It is the mission of The Foundation for Cottage Rehabilitation and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospitals is to support the provision of hospital and other medical rehabilitation programs and services at Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital and Goleta…
The purpose of the Medical Staff of Santa Barbara is to assure that all patients admitted to or treated at Cottage Health facilities (hospitals) receive a uniform standard of quality care, treatment and efficiency consistent with generally…
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation operates solely for the benefit of Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. It is organized specifically to develop, manage and channel the community's philanthropic support on behalf of the Goleta Valley…
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
To participate in and educate the public about health issues and ballot proposition activity related to health issues or of concern to hospitals and health systems.
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
South Peninsula Hospital promotes community health and wellness by providing personalized, high-quality, locally coordinated healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Westmont College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds Cottage Health ↗
- Who funds Goleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTMONT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital ↗
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.
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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 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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