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Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara

Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,000 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($320,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$166k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$367k
Net assets
$929k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara does

Mission

To preserve carriages for public benefit.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Continuation of the preservation and restoration of carriages, repairing of saddles and tack, and the displaying and rental of the above for the benefit of the public.

    $168,993 spent$122,587 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,993.

02The 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 ($126k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 100 ($871k)2018 Revenue 245 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($133k) Net assets 120 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 126 ($159k) Expenses 134 ($178k) Net assets 118 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 100 ($126k) Expenses 98 ($131k) Net assets 121 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 175 ($220k) Expenses 127 ($169k) Net assets 127 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 125 ($157k) Expenses 173 ($231k) Net assets 118 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 153 ($193k) Expenses 152 ($202k) Net assets 118 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 132 ($166k) Expenses 170 ($226k) Net assets 107 ($929k)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (170)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $871k to $1.0M (+20%).

$871k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.0M
$932k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
$176k
’18
−$20k
’19
−$6k
’20
$51k
’21
−$74k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$60k
’24
3.3
months of
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.

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Listed1214141414141414
Joined·+2+0+2+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·0020110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $51k → $42k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 82% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
79%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Carriage & Western Art Museum 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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Questions and answers

Who funds Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara?
Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,000 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($320,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $367,000 in grants to Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Carriage & Western Art Museum of Santa Barbara?
THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Carriage & Western Art Museum 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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