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CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA

CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,352,704 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($2,131,537). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$12M
Revenue FY2024
99
Funders on record
$13M
Grants received
$157M
Net assets
57/99 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($122M)2018 Revenue 54 ($7.1M) Expenses 59 ($6.7M) Net assets 96 ($117M)2019 Revenue 63 ($8.2M) Expenses 61 ($6.9M) Net assets 104 ($127M)2020 Revenue 45 ($5.9M) Expenses 53 ($6.0M) Net assets 108 ($132M)2021 Revenue 56 ($7.3M) Expenses 51 ($5.7M) Net assets 113 ($138M)2022 Revenue 173 ($23M) Expenses 57 ($6.4M) Net assets 117 ($143M)2023 Revenue 132 ($17M) Expenses 66 ($7.5M) Net assets 123 ($150M)2024 Revenue 92 ($12M) Expenses 70 ($7.9M) Net assets 129 ($157M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (70)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

36% of CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,738 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
17
$376k
18
$1.4M
19
$159k
20
$1.6M
21
$16M
22
$9.8M
23
$4.1M
24
5.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 39 funders, grant income fell $3.5M → $1.5M.

14 of 99 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $103k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA raised.

From the IRS filings of CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 99 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

CANCER FOUNDATION 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

53% 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 CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA.

16%
largest funder
46%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 23% · 2019 14% · 2020 24% · 2021 53% · 2022 15% · 2023 14%diversifying over time.

“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

42% of CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

72% of CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA's grant income comes from California funders.

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MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
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OH
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CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
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AZ
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 99 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 12%Fundraising 10%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA?
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 99 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,352,704 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($2,131,537). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA have?
IRS filings report 99 organizations giving $13,352,704 in grants to CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,131,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANCER FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 99funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing