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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$864kEducation$788kYouth Development$742kHealth$304kHousing & Shelter$216kFood & Nutrition$100kCommunity Improvement$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $285,094, the rows itemized in this filing. The $471,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $185,939 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUADALUPE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$79,894
LEAN ENGAGE ADVOCATE PARTNER$75,000
LITTLE ANGELS PRESCHOOL$15,200
COASTAL FAMILY PRESCHOOL$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MIXTECOINDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $11k → 10%American Red Cross-Santa Barb: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS - SANTA BARBARA: $25k → 14%MIXTECOINDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $7k → 10%Easy Lift Transportation: $15k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $10k → 14%CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICESPROMOTORES NETWORK: $48k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $455k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $403k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $141k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $118k → 14%Unity Shoppe Inc: $100k → 14%Family Service Agency: $70k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 14%Family Service Agency: $35k → 14%Unity Shoppe Inc: $35k → 14%Family Service Agency: $21k → 14%Friendship Adult Day Care Cen: $15k → 14%FRIENDSHIP DAY CARE CE: $11k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5k → 14%Hospice of Santa Barbara: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 14%SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA: $254k → 14%SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA: $53k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 20 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
37

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+46%

Still filing today

65%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +96%
  • SM
    SANTA MARIA VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $307k · revenue +278%
  • FL
    Future Leaders of America
    2× · 2018–2021 · $126k · revenue +655%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST
    one grant, 2021 · $191k · revenue -7%
  • CI
    Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $141k · revenue +99%
  • US
    UNITY SHOPPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $135k · revenue +79%
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.

1
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County

To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

—
4
Santa Barbara Soccer Club

Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.

Recreation & Sports
5
St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbara

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

Health
6
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara

Angels foster care protects abused, neglected and abandoned infants and toddlers, nurtures them in one loving home until adoption or reunification, and ensures that they reach their maximum development potential.

Human Services
7
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
8
Nbcc

To provide counseling, education, shelter and supportive services to low-income, homeless and mentally ill individuals and families.

Human Services
9
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

It is the mission of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion.

Health
10
Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.

—
11
San Luis Obispo County Child Abuse Prevention Council Dba Cfsslo

The vision of center for family strengthening is a community where all children are valued, nurtured and safe. our misson is to build effective community partnerships dedicated to the support of strong families and the prevention of child…

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hope School District Educational Foundation. 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

44 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. 44 of the 63 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,152,265 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNT…SANTA MARIA VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $306,849 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASS…Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $141,047 · Human ServicesChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Associ…UNITY SHOPPE INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC+9 more: $208,524 · Human Services+9 moreHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $274,130 · OtherHOPE COMMUNITY CHURCHLompoc Unified School Dist: $159,500 · OtherLompoc Unified School DistGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $146,825 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANT…GUADALUPE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $120,000 · OtherGUADALUPE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $115,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHERN S…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $79,894 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BAR…SANTA MARIA-BONITA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIRE DEPT: $64,860 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $50,000 · OtherWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $75,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $66,525 · Other+17 more: $268,267 · Other+17 moreUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $430,100 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED BOYS AND GI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $190,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…Future Leaders of America: $125,618 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of …GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $59,400 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED…Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $95,350 · EducationSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $60,000 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $25,520 · EducationLITTLE ANGELS PRESCHOOL inc: $15,200 · EducationHOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCold Spring School Foundation: $15,000 · EducationSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $47,945 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $46,507 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $40,000 · HealthDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $27,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $18,000 · HealthCasa Serena: $8,200 · HealthVNA HEALTH: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTRANSITION HOUSE: $55,402 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $48,745 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $32,543 · Housing & ShelterFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $135,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,943,685Other$1,495,001Youth Development$805,618Education$226,070Health$200,152Housing & Shelter$136,690Food & Nutrition$135,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,152,265 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $430,100 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSANTA MARIA VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $306,849 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $190,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $146,825 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $141,047 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $135,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $135,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFuture Leaders of America: $125,618 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $115,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: $95,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $66,525 over 1y, 12% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $59,400 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE: $55,402 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER: $48,745 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $48,125 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $47,945 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $46,507 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD CALIFORNIA CENTRAL COAST: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP: $32,543 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $27,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT: $25,520 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $25,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $17,899 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE ANGELS PRESCHOOL inc: $15,200 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetCALM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCold Spring School Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSANTA YNEZ VALLEY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCasa Serena: $8,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Towbes FoundationAnn Jackson Family Fo…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Women's Fund of Santa…James S Bower Foundat…Latkin Charitable Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Mosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA72.2× affinity35 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 · 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
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 United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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