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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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$169MCommunity Improvement$1.9MEducation$1.3M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $11,221,821, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,763,971 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $542,150 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $312k
  • $250k+2 grants · $11M
$429,251
Median grant
1
States reached
$295M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital$10,480,570
Cottage Health$429,251
CSUCI FOUNDATION$208,000
Westmont College$104,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $233k → 10%Cancer Center Foundation of Santa Barbara: $2.0M → 14%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $220k → 10%University of CA Regents: $37k → 14%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $210k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CA REGENTS: $31k → 14%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $208k → 10%Westmont College: $104k → 14%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $120k → 10%Westmont College: $96k → 14%CSUCI FOUNDATION: $109k → 10%Westmont College: $32k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170M · 7 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$170M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-7%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementReligionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160M · revenue +31%
  • CH
    Cottage Health
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +65%
  • GV
    Goleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc
    2× · 2017–2021 · $3.7M · revenue +7% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue -8%
  • SY
    Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue -7%
  • GV
    Goleta Valley Cottage Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +37%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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.

Health
2
Castle Medical Center dba Adventist Health Castle

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
3
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation

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…

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4
Simi Valley Hosp and Hlth Care Services dba Adventist Health Simi Valley

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
5
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

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…

Health
6
Medical Staff of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

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…

Unclassified
7
White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
8
California Hospitals Committee on Issues

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.

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9
Adventist Health Medical Ctr Tehachapi dba Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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10
Barlow Respiratory Hospital

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.

Health
11
South Peninsula Hospital Inc

South Peninsula Hospital promotes community health and wellness by providing personalized, high-quality, locally coordinated healthcare.

Health
12
Wenatchee Valley Hospital

We are dedicated to improving our patients' health by providing safe, high-quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital: $159,609,853 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital+4 more: $2,057,532 · HealthCottage Health: $5,280,992 · ReligionGoleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc: $3,698,189 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $1,099,800 · EducationTHE WESTMONT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $232,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $68,635 · Other
Health$161,667,385Religion$5,280,992Community Improvement$3,698,189Education$1,099,800Other$300,635

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital: $159,609,853 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetCottage Health: $5,280,992 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGoleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc: $3,698,189 over 2y, 28% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $2,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $1,099,800 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTHE WESTMONT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $232,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation: $37,427 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSanta Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc: $12,605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGoleta Valley Cottage Hospital: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Santa Barbara FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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