· Public charity
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara
The mission of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $906,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $962,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $240k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cottage Health | $375,000 |
| SB Neighborhood Clinics | $80,000 |
| Sarah House | $60,000 |
| The Cecilia Fund | $50,000 |
| VNA | $50,000 |
| Hillside House | $25,000 |
| Drs Without Walls | $25,000 |
| Friendship Center | $23,000 |
| Sanctuary Centers | $20,000 |
| Westmont College Nursing Prog | $15,000 |
| Family Service Agency | $15,000 |
| FND SB City College | $15,000 |
| Hospice Santa Barbara | $15,000 |
| Scholarship Foundation | $15,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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 +49% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 9 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 FY2025, 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
- CHCottage Health7× · 2019–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +90%
- SBSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
- SBSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS7× · 2018–2025 · $517k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT'S INSTITUTIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +3%
- COCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuseone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +14%
- VMVILLA MAJELLA OF SANTA BARBARA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +56%
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.
New house dedicates itself to providing a clean and sober, healthy environment that allows men with alcohol and other drug problems to begin their journey of recovery and to reclaim their dignity, self-esteem, and sense of purpose. new…
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.
To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
To provide social service assistance to the elderly and disabled in santa barbara, california.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Vna health provides home health and hospice services to patients in santa barbara and the surrounding area.
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…
Savie health's mission is to provide free medical, dental and vision care to uninsured adults in santa barbara county and beyond, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, immigration status, religion or sexual orientation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc and the most unlike its peers is The North Carolina Gospel Music Hall of Fame Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 47 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 Cottage Health ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds SARAH HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THE CECILIA FUND ↗
- Who funds VNA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds WILLBRIDGE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds JODI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds SHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA GOSPEL MUSIC HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds American Indian Health & Services ↗
- Who funds 4 KIDS 2 KIDS ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds VILLA MAJELLA OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Towbes Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Bull Henry W Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · The Crawford Idema Family Foundation Inc · 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 St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara 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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