California · Nonprofit
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,444,103 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($558,070). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse does
Mission
Building healthier lives, stronger families, and a safer, more vibrant community through education, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders throughout Santa Barbara County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Prevention and Treatment - Many of the youth services CADA provides were originally designed by Santa Barbara Fighting Back, and CADA works in collaboration with schools, community-based agencies, law enforcement, and with parents, to provide a safety net of prevention, intervention and treatment programs that reach youth at home, at school, and in the community. See Schedule O for further details.
$2,944,390 spent$3,488,297 earned by the program50% of program spendingAdult Treatment - Substance abuse crosses the boundaries of gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, and CADA services reflect its sensitivity to the needs of all of the populations that make up the Santa Barbara community. CADA provides a range of adult services from prevention to treatment, including reducing stressors that can lead to substance abuse; providing information to professionals and the general public on substance abuse issues and resources; and providing residential detox and outpatient treatment services to adults who seek treatment on their own or are referred through the criminal justice system or social service agencies. See Schedule O for further details.
$2,829,459 spent$3,007,136 earned by the program48% of program spendingEAP: SAVE - Save A Valuable Employee (SAVE): SAVE is a statewide Employee AssistanceProgram designed to enhance the wellbeing, productivity, and retention of employees in the workplace. SAVE provides assessments, referrals, and brief counseling for a variety of employee concerns, such as marital and family issues, stress, substance abuse, and other psychological challenges. SAVE helps employees improve relationships with coworkers and develop more effective communication skills. Other services provided by SAVE include debriefing after a critical incident, such as the unexpected death of an employee, and trainings on topics such as sexual harassment, conflict resolution, respectful communication, stress management, and dealing with trauma in the workplace.
$63,713 spent$111,109 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,837,562.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.7M to $8.9M (+33%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
J Gordon Auchincloss JD
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $221k → $372k.
12 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
51% 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 Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 54% · 2019 25% · 2020 18% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% — 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
36% of Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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 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
77% of Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.7M
- Department of Justice$320k
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 Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
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
81% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: 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 Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse?
- Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,444,103 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($558,070). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $3,444,103 in grants to Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $558,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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