California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA
COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,467 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($30,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Trshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Roy and Ida Eagle Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Latkin Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
90% of COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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
COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 53% · 2020 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Trshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 68 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Roy and Ida Eagle Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Latkin Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchMN · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 67 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Fund of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Volentine Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Santa Barbara County Inclocalportfolio matchCA · funds 49 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Junior League of Santa Barbaralocalportfolio matchCA · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- George B Page Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalCA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- The Nurture Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- James S Bower Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
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 COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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.
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 COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA?
- COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,467 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($30,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $50,467 in grants to COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FRIENDS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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