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Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance

Donate funds to, or purchase equipment for, the santa barbara city and santa barbara county fire departments in the state of california.

$276k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$199,394
Largest grant, FY2025
$199,394
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$146k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$276k0%
FY20241$10k0%
FY20222$74k0%
FY20213$118k33%
FY20203$414k0%
FY20193$1.2M33%
FY20182$93k0%
FY20172$68kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.3M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT$199,394
SANTA BARBARA CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT$76,952

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Find your warmest path to Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance 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.

About Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance

How much does Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance give?
Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance reported 2 grants totaling $276,346 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (100%).
Does Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance based?
Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance is based in CA.

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 4 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2025, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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