California · Nonprofit
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,460 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($221,203). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $365k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $590k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara Inc does
Mission
Public benefit/education/scientific:we work to make our local fishing community resilient and effective in its efforts to: provide healthy, high quality seafood, to ensure the economic and biological sustainability of fisheries and to educate the public about environmentally sustainable fishery management. We help connect fishermen, the public, scientists, and community leaders to help develop and implement envirnmentally progressive practices.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Infrastructure: we coordinated with consultants, other non-profits, and city staff/officials to assess and problem solve the need to expand fisheries infrastructure in our port.
$211,287 spent60% of program spendingOutreach & advocacy: we educated the public about fisheries through our fisherment's market, beach clean ups, lectures and web-based communications.
$105,113 spent30% of program spendingVarious other programs
$32,952 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $349,352.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $377k to $305k (−19%).
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.
82% of COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $177k → $7k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC’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
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% — 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
29% of COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 25% 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 FY2022, 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
82% of COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $108k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $108k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$108k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC?
- COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $590,460 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($221,203). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $590,460 in grants to COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $221,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN OF SANTA BARBARA INC 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 8 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