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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 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, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
PATH SANTA BARBARA$110,000
SEE INTERNATIONAL$110,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS$100,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA$100,000
CARPINTERIA CHILDREN'S PROJECT$100,000
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC$80,000
SHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA$75,000
CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$75,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA PACIFICA: $80k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $100k → 14%CASA PACIFICA: $90k → 14%MOTHERS' HELPERS INC: $80k → 14%EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION: $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%UNITY SHOPPE: $75k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS (NBCC): $75k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Women's Fund of Santa Barbara’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 89%.

Women's Fund of Santa Barbaralessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
4
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
5
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
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
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
8
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
9
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.

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10
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
11
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
12
Dependency Advocacy Center

Dependency advocacy center (dac) provides zealous legal representation to indigent clients in the juvenile dependency system to promote timely reunification and preservation of families in a safe, healthy environment. dac believes that…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nbcc; the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

47 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…EASY LIFT TRANSPORTATION INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS' HELPERS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesUNITY SHOPPE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSHOWERS OF BLESSING SANTA BARBARA: $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…SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $100,000 · HealthSANTA BARBA…Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc: $100,000 · HealthSanctuary C…Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $100,000 · HealthCouncil on …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…ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTION: $100,000 · OtherST VINCENT'S INSTITUTIONAccess Central Coast formerly Independent Living Resource Ctr: $100,000 · OtherAccess Central Coast for…HILLSIDE HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherHILLSIDE HOUSESTORYTELLER 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…SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIB…KINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK: $100,000 · OtherKINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY …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 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 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 budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $170,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 budgetSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILY RESOURCE SERVICES: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 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 budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHILLSIDE HOUSE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKINGDOM CAUSES INC CITY NET BEDROCK CREEK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFREEDOM 4 YOUTH: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMOTHERS' HELPERS INC: $80,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% 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 budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $55,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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…Latkin Charitable Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…Williams-Corbett Foun…Junior League of Sant…James S Bower Foundat…United Way of Santa B…Alice Tweed Tuohy Fou…
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

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 Women's Fund of Santa Barbara funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Fund of Santa Barbara. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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 47 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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