How much does St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara give?

St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara reported 27 itemized grants totaling $906,000, out of $962,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (90%), Housing & Shelter (4%), Human Services (2%).

Who are St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cottage Health ($3.3M), Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital ($1.3M), Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics ($517k).

Does St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Latkin Charitable Foundation.

Where is St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara based?

St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara is based in CA.

St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st.

$962k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$375k

Largest

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 2025.

Health$8.0MHousing & Shelter$330kHuman Services$165kEducation$162kFood & Nutrition$119kInternational$72k

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 27 grants below total $906,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $962,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,000 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 · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $37k
$10k–50k17 grants · $254k
$50k–250k4 grants · $240k
$250k+1 grant · $375k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Cottage Health	$375,000
SB Neighborhood Clinics	$80,000
Sarah House	$60,000
VNA	$50,000
The Cecilia Fund	$50,000
Drs Without Walls	$25,000
Hillside House	$25,000
Friendship Center	$23,000
Sanctuary Centers	$20,000
FND SB City College	$15,000
Hospice Santa Barbara	$15,000
Family Service Agency	$15,000
Scholarship Foundation	$15,000
Westmont College Nursing Prog	$15,000
SEE International	$12,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$8.7M · 36 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.7M

$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+23%

Still filing today

94%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

CH
Cottage Health
7× · 2019–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +90%
SB
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
SB
SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS
7× · 2018–2025 · $517k · revenue +141%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +3%
CO
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +14%
VM
VILLA MAJELLA OF SANTA BARBARA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +56%

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.

Santa Barbara New House

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…

Health

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

Southern California Rehabilitation Services Inc

To operate community service centers to improve physical,social and financial conditions for the disabled and the elderly.

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St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.

Health

Pilgrim Terrace Cooperative Homes

To provide social service assistance to the elderly and disabled in santa barbara, california.

Housing & Shelter

South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health

The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals

Vna Health

Vna health provides home health and hospice services to patients in santa barbara and the surrounding area.

Health

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

Savie Health

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc; 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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

34/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Religion$3,316,350Health$3,222,598Other$1,243,720Human Services$542,755Education$232,720Food & Nutrition$142,500Housing & Shelter$114,000

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

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 FoundationCA63.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report 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

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.

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