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Santa Barbara Police Foundation

To support the men and women of the santa barbara police department.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$613k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Santa Barbara Police Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Public Safety & DisasterOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$6k100%
FY20222$317k50%
FY20211$45k0%
FY20202$120k50%
FY20192$102k0%
FY20183$80k67%
FY20171$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$427kCrime & Legal$125kPublic Benefit$92kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCommunity Improvement$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Santa Barbara Public Library$91,5002n/a
One805 Inc$20,0191n/a
Santa Barbara Police Activities League Inc$6,00011%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($582k), not named here.

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How do I get to Santa Barbara Police Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Santa Barbara Police 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.

About Santa Barbara Police Foundation

How much does Santa Barbara Police Foundation give?
Santa Barbara Police Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $22,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Santa Barbara Police Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (61%), Crime & Legal (18%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Santa Barbara Police Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Santa Barbara Public Library ($92k), One805 Inc ($20k), Santa Barbara Police Activities League Inc ($6k).
Does Santa Barbara Police Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Santa Barbara Police Foundation based?
Santa Barbara Police Foundation 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 6 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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