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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CRCHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO2× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +347%
- ACADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT)2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +2% · 38% of their budget
- NNBCC2× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +260%
Funded once
- ARALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2023 · $140k · revenue +19%
- IVIsla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartnergraduatedone grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue +32%
- SBSANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INCone 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.
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.
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…
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…
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Catholic charities creates access to opportunities for self-sufficiency by providing innovative and compassionate services to people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures.
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…
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.
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 field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDRENS RESOURCE & REFERRAL OF SANTA BARBARA CO ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION (FKA UFFIZI ORDER)(DBA-SBACT) ↗
- Who funds NBCC ↗
- Who funds Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine ↗
- Who funds DIGNITYMOVES ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center ↗
- Who funds CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Santa Barbara Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds 2nd Story Associates ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Pathpoint ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK ↗
- Who funds Access Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM 4 YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS' HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds FOOD FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds CALM INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
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.
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.
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.