California · Public charity
United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc
To enrich the lives of children and families and build resilient communities by leading local programs and partnerships that improve school readiness and academic achievement, financial empowerment, and crisis response and recovery.
- $471k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $285k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $285k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $523k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $2.4M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $581k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $103k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $883k | 94% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $1,152,265 | 5 | 3% |
| United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County | $430,100 | 2 | 5% |
| Santa Maria Valley Young Men's Christian Association | $306,849 | 2 | 2% |
| Hope Community Church | $274,130 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Central Coast | $190,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Lompoc Unified School Dist | $159,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara | $146,825 | 3 | 4% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $141,047 | 1 | 1% |
| Unity Shoppe Inc | $135,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $135,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 59 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · James S Bower Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation
How this is measured
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About United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc
- How much does United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc give?
- United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $285,094, out of $471,033 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County ($1.2M), United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County ($430k), Santa Maria Valley Young Men's Christian Association ($307k).
- Does United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Towbes Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc based?
- United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc is based in CA.
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