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Women's Fund of Santa Barbara

The WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA is a volunteer-led collective donor organization that enables women to combine our charitable dollars into significant grants addressing the critical needs of women, children, and families in south santa barbara county.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$1.3MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEducation$650kCrime & Legal$545kYouth Development$350kInternational$170kCommunity Improvement$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$200,000
NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER$150,000
GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER$150,000
SEE INTERNATIONAL$110,000
PATH SANTA BARBARA$110,000
CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT$100,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS$100,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA$100,000
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC$80,000
SHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA$75,000
CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$75,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $80k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $100k → 14%CASA PACIFICA: $90k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $80k → 14%MOTHERS' HELPERS INC: $80k → 14%CHILDREN'S RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $200k → 14%ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $140k → 14%CHILDREN'S RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100k → 14%CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%FOOD FROM THE HEART OF SANTA BARBARA: $75k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $100k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS: $100k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $75k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $75k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS (NBCC): $75k → 14%PATH SANTA BARBARA (PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS): $50k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING CENTER: $150k → 14%PATH SANTA BARBARA: $110k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Women's Fund of Santa Barbara’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Women's Fund of Santa Barbaralessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 13 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
29

Total granted

$2.6M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CR
    CHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO
    2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +347%
  • AC
    ADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT)
    2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +2% · 38% of their budget
  • N
    NBCC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • AR
    ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue +19%
  • IV
    Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartnergraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue +32%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue -17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Transition House

Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to…

Housing & Shelter
2
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
3
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
4
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
5
Court Appointed Special Advocate of San Benito County Inc

The mission of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of San Benito County is to train and support community volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children placed in foster care, upholding the children's rights while pursuing…

Civil Rights
6
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
7
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
8
Interim Inc

Interim, inc.'s mission is to provide services and affordable housing to supporting members of our community with mental illness in building productive and satisfying lives.

9
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa

Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.

Human Services
10
Candela Group

The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…

Health
11
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley

To partner with all members of the santa maria community to achieve resilience against substance use, reductions in violence and promote a healthy and safe environment for our youth and families.

Health
12
Family Care Network Inc

The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc and the most unlike its peers is Food From the Heart 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
10%
231/2,225

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.

05the grantee network

47 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO — $300,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANT…NBCC — $225,000 · Human ServicesNBCCChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $175,000 · Human ServicesChannel Islands Young Men's Christian…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $170,000 · Human ServicesCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & …PATH — $160,000 · Human ServicesPATHALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA — $140,000 · Human ServicesALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBAR…CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICESDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA…FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBAR…MOTHERS' HELPERS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesEASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesSHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA — $75,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $190,000 · EducationCARPINTERIA CHI…Santa Barbara Education Foundation — $190,000 · EducationSanta Barbara E…Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner — $120,000 · EducationIsla Vista Yout…Pathpoint — $105,000 · EducationPathpointFREEDOM 4 YOUTH — $100,000 · EducationFREEDOM 4 YOUTHGOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EducationGOLETA EDUCATIO…Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $220,000 · HealthDoctors Wit…Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $100,000 · HealthCouncil on …Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc — $100,000 · HealthSanctuary C…SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $100,000 · HealthSANTA BARBA…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…DIGNITYMOVES — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterDIGNITYMOV…GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMAR…2nd Story Associates — $150,000 · Housing & Shelter2nd Story …PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE'S S…HILLSIDE HOUSE — $100,000 · OtherHILLSIDE HOUSEST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION — $100,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S INSTITUTIONAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr — $100,000 · OtherAccess Central Coast for…STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $55,000 · OtherTHE CECILIA FUND — $50,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $110,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACT…INTERFAITH INITIATIVE OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $65,000 · OtherINTERFAITH INITIATIVE OF…SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $170,000 · OtherSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA — $100,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CA…UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $70,000 · OtherUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CL…KINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK — $100,000 · OtherKINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY …SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIB…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $75,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL …Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center — $195,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 · Crime & LegalCALM INC — $75,000 · Crime & LegalADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) — $300,000 · Food & NutritionFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $55,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,855,000Education$770,000Health$550,000Housing & Shelter$540,000Other$1,195,000Crime & Legal$370,000Food & Nutrition$355,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO — $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) — $300,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetNBCC — $225,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine — $220,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSanta Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center — $195,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT — $190,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Education Foundation — $190,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $170,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $170,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPATH — $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget2nd Story Associates — $150,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA — $140,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner — $120,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC — $110,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPathpoint — $105,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOTHERS' HELPERS INC — $80,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALM INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGOLETA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $55,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CECILIA FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA81.2× affinity39 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 · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Junior League of Santa Barbara · James S Bower Foundation · United Way of Santa Barbara County 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 Women's Fund 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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