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Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

$109M
Granted FY2024still arriving
447
Grants FY2024still arriving
31
States reached
$7.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$49MArts & Culture$34MEnvironment$28MPhilanthropy$22MHealth$21MFood & Nutrition$20MAnimals$12MHuman Services$11MOther$0
02FY2024 · 447 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 447 grants below total $40,200,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $109,030,325 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $68,830,197 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

  • Under $10k67 grants · $460k
  • $10k–50k252 grants · $5.3M
  • $50k–250k106 grants · $10M
  • $250k+22 grants · $24M
$25,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$504M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST$7,000,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$6,299,195
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$1,271,700
FOOTHILLS FOREVER INCORPORATED$1,159,104
SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$1,098,650
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$890,993
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE$756,340
ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$689,100
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY$618,221
CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH CORPORATION$605,100
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$517,318
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$427,763
MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST$403,321
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$313,110
STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE$300,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KNOWLEDGE IMPACT NETWORK: $92k → 7%DREAMTREE PROJECT INC: $203k → 18%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $200k → 20%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $75k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $60k → 8%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $76k → 10%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $200k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $67k → 14%SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA: $78k → 14%SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA: $60k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA OFFICE: $118k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA OFFICE: $88k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $68k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $61k → 14%CUYAMA VALLEY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $64k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $83k → 14%ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $71k → 14%CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $71k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $452k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $262k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $244k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $201k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $182k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $161k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $145k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $136k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA OFFICE: $123k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $120k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $112k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $108k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA ASSOCIATION OFFICE: $107k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA OFFICE: $94k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $91k → 14%CARRILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $88k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $77k → 14%SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION NETWORK: $73k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $73k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $71k → 14%SANTA BARBARA FAMILY CARE CENTER: $70k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA OFFICE: $70k → 14%CARRILLO COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $61k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $61k → 14%MONTECITO RETIREMENT ASSOCIATION: $67k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $64k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $59k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $57k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $79k → 14%SUSTAINABLE CHANGE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $70k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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ID
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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
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AR
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NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$190M · 578 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

578 repeat relationships — 324 still active in FY2024, 254 since wound down; 110 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

578
392

Total granted

$190M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • CI
    Channel Islands Restoration
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +97%
  • SF
    SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +174%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5.8M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • PJ
    PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue +84%
  • LA
    LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $468k
  • RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +199%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
5
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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8
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

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10
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 1TO4. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportPublic Library OperationsDance Arts OrganizationsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Elementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Construc…Jewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Military Veterans SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsFaith-Based Social ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersYmca Youth DevelopmentAffordable Housing Developm…Domestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%36%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%22/1,115
the rest of the field
14%
25,988/185,863

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.

04the grantee network

922 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. 922 of the 1,116 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.

80
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
259
Early backer (in before they grew)
885/922
Grantees still filing
642/922
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,327,288 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA CE…SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $5,872,886 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MU…MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $3,962,682 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF…SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART — $2,851,640 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MU…LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,184,461 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $1,099,750 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $6,596,020 · Arts & Culture+15 moreSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $10,375,968 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — $2,926,597 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $6,973,137 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $3,017,500 · Other+86 more — $47,524,812 · Other+86 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,761,701 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS U…UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $3,777,282 · EducationUC SANTA BARBAR…CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,977,646 · EducationCRANE COUNTRY D…Santa Barbara Education Foundation — $1,352,175 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $1,045,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $980,000 · EducationThe Thacher School Inc — $971,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $953,458 · Education+23 more — $9,494,982 · Education+23 moreChannel Islands Restoration — $12,119,060 · EnvironmentChannel Islan…Leading from Within — $1,303,418 · EnvironmentLeading from …THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $1,253,944 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUS…COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,159,634 · EnvironmentFoothills Forever Incorporated — $1,159,104 · EnvironmentTHE PROJECT FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES — $937,404 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN — $856,253 · Environment+9 more — $3,913,250 · Environment+9 moreFOOD & WATER WATCH — $7,903,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WAT…Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $2,574,412 · Food & NutritionFoodbank o…A Greener World — $2,550,000 · Food & NutritionA Greener …SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC — $1,648,300 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY R…INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE & TRADE POLICY — $650,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $600,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $1,342,130 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $2,131,537 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $1,861,533 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $1,484,717 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST — $1,347,309 · HealthSansum Diabetes Research Institute — $817,672 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $591,068 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $570,925 · HealthCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $558,070 · HealthTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND — $531,105 · Health+16 more — $4,710,682 · HealthDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST — $7,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $2,016,926 · PhilanthropySANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $1,514,169 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA — $1,042,693 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC — $1,009,675 · Philanthropy+2 more — $706,622 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$27,894,727Other$70,818,014Education$26,313,744Environment$22,702,067Food & Nutrition$17,267,842Health$14,604,618Philanthropy$13,290,085

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChannel Islands Restoration — $12,119,060 over 8y, 23% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $10,375,968 over 8y, 15% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $7,903,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST — $7,000,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $6,973,137 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $6,327,288 over 8y, 45% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $5,872,886 over 8y, 16% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,761,701 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST — $3,962,682 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $3,777,282 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $3,017,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART — $2,851,640 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $2,574,412 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetA Greener World — $2,550,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $2,131,537 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $2,053,413 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC — $2,016,926 over 8y, 20% of budgetCRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $1,977,646 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $1,861,533 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project — $1,800,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $1,755,296 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $1,727,750 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC — $1,648,300 over 5y, 18% of budgetSANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION — $1,588,128 over 8y, 56% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,549,877 over 8y, 75% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $1,514,169 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $1,484,717 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $1,352,175 over 8y, 14% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST — $1,347,309 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLeading from Within — $1,303,418 over 8y, 42% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $1,253,944 over 8y, 11% of budgetCALM INC — $1,253,890 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,220,768 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE — $1,186,114 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,184,461 over 8y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,159,634 over 8y, 14% of budgetFoothills Forever Incorporated — $1,159,104 over 1y, 97% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,101,980 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA NATURE ART MUSEUM — $1,099,750 over 8y, 35% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,045,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA — $1,042,693 over 6y, 63% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $1,028,587 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $1,018,493 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC — $1,009,675 over 8y, 11% of budgetThe George Washington University — $980,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $971,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $960,278 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE — $953,458 over 8y, 3.3% of budget
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 Channel Islands Restoration ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
  • Who funds DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
  • Who funds A Greener World ↗
  • Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds Government Accountability Project ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
  • Who funds SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA CRUZ ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST ↗
  • Who funds Leading from Within ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CALM INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Foothills Forever Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Williams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Towbes FoundationFund for Santa Barbar…Mosher FoundationJames S Bower Foundat…Latkin Charitable Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…The McCune FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…
Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker FoundationCA293.7× affinity210 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Mosher Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The McCune Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Friends of Family Farmers — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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