California · Nonprofit
ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA
ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,091 to it, the largest being ANN JACKSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($173,880). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara does
Mission
Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara is committed to empowering individuals with developmental disabilities, supporting families and fostering a community that values the contribution of all people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alpha's catoaks adult day program supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities allowing them to access the community, participate in social and recreational activities, enhance their life skills, and pursue personal goals. Participants receive individualized support with activities of daily living based on need. The program typically provides services to 80-100 individuals monday through friday.
$2,491,544 spent$2,222,309 earned by the program59% of program spendingSlingshot art studio provides artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to create art in a variety of mediums. Artist receive guidance in techniques from trained staff to help them enhance their art practice. The program includes a gallery function that assists artist in presenting their art to the broader art community through gallery shows, promotes and facilitates artwork sales, and provides artist representation. The program serves 30-40 artists.
$545,842 spent13% of program spendingAlpha's lifespan support services helps individuals with developmental disabilities and their families access public services and school supports while connecting them to valuable resources and the broader disability community. Services are provided from prenatal diagnosis to end of life. The program serves 1200-1700 individuals and families and 200-400 professionals each year.
$1,120,840 spent27% of program spendingKatie's fund is a youth and young adult social and recreational program composed of teen extreme and expo. The program is intended to enhance social and recreational opportunities for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and to continue providing those opportunities through early adulthood.
$38,741 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,196,967.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $6.6M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joshua Weitzman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $51k → $329k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 27% · 2019 61% · 2020 29% · 2021 56% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Caps of Santa Barbara Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA?
- ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,082,091 to it, the largest being ANN JACKSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($173,880). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,082,091 in grants to ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA?
- ANN JACKSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $173,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing