California · Community foundation
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. The women's fund educates and inspires women to engage in making lasting change in…
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Women's Fund of Santa Barbara funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $610k 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 | 11 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $925k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $900k | 91% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $750k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $685k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara Co | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Advancing Collective Transformation (Fka Uffizi Order)(Dba-Sbact) | $300,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Nbcc | $225,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine | $220,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Dignitymoves | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center | $195,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Carpinteria Children's Project | $190,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $190,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families | $170,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Women's Fund of Santa Barbara supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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 · 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
How this is measured
About Women's Fund of Santa Barbara
- How much does Women's Fund of Santa Barbara give?
- Women's Fund of Santa Barbara reported 11 grants totaling $1,250,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Women's Fund of Santa Barbara fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
- Who are Women's Fund of Santa Barbara's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Childrens Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara Co ($300k), Advancing Collective Transformation (Fka Uffizi Order)(Dba-Sbact) ($300k), Nbcc ($225k).
- Does Women's Fund of Santa Barbara fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Fund of Santa Barbara?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Towbes Foundation.
- Where is Women's Fund of Santa Barbara based?
- Women's Fund of Santa Barbara is based in CA.
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