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CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC

CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,949 to it, the largest being S Weldon Family Foundation ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$786k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$102k
Net assets
$1.2M
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Cornerstone House of Santa Barbara Inc does

Mission

Residential home care for developmentally disabled.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cornerstone house provides intermediate care for the developmentaly disabled - licensed for & current occupancy of 6 adult residents.

    $642,939 spent$73,220 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $642,939.

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 ($555k) Expenses 100 ($549k) Net assets 100 ($721k)2018 Revenue 102 ($569k) Expenses 107 ($586k) Net assets 98 ($704k)2019 Revenue 102 ($566k) Expenses 102 ($562k) Net assets 98 ($708k)2020 Revenue 114 ($631k) Expenses 110 ($605k) Net assets 102 ($734k)2021 Revenue 174 ($967k) Expenses 133 ($732k) Net assets 134 ($969k)2022 Revenue 153 ($849k) Expenses 137 ($751k) Net assets 142 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 166 ($920k) Expenses 147 ($805k) Net assets 163 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 141 ($786k) Expenses 149 ($818k) Net assets 163 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (149)Net assets (163)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 2020 to 2021, from $872k to $1.1M (+22%).

$768k
$743k
$781k
$872k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 64% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
−$17k
’18
$4k
’19
$26k
’20
$235k
’21
$98k
’22
$114k
’23
−$32k
’24
2.2
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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Listed999811111111
Joined·+0+0+1+5+1+0+1
No longer listed·0022101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CORNERSTONE HOUSE 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

CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2019 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 88% · 2023 91% — 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

33% of CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

100% of CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services 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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
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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Questions and answers

Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC?
CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,949 to it, the largest being S Weldon Family Foundation ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $101,949 in grants to CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE HOUSE OF SANTA BARBARA INC?
S Weldon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CORNERSTONE HOUSE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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