Skip to content
Plinth
Funding

California · Nonprofit

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,816,591 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($239,600). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.4M
Revenue FY2025
39
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
22/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 363 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 civil rights 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($974k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 99 ($1.3M) Net assets 97 ($945k)2019 Revenue 152 ($2.0M) Expenses 159 ($2.1M) Net assets 88 ($854k)2020 Revenue 162 ($2.1M) Expenses 171 ($2.2M) Net assets 72 ($699k)2021 Revenue 159 ($2.1M) Expenses 140 ($1.8M) Net assets 101 ($979k)2022 Revenue 211 ($2.7M) Expenses 161 ($2.1M) Net assets 167 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 172 ($2.2M) Expenses 139 ($1.8M) Net assets 211 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 158 ($2.1M) Expenses 166 ($2.2M) Net assets 201 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 183 ($2.4M) Expenses 169 ($2.2M) Net assets 221 ($2.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (183)Expenses (169)Net assets (221)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 24% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 11% · 2024 15% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$52
17
$49k
18
$91k
19
$113k
20
$244k
21
$648k
22
$418k
23
$103k
24
$181k
25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $173k → $341k.

8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)29% 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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

46% 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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 32% · 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 29%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.

How long its funders stay

72% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
IL
WI
OR
IN
CA
MD
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $533k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

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 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 15%Fundraising 10%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

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 COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,816,591 to it, the largest being National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ($239,600). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,816,591 in grants to COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is the largest funder on record, with $239,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY 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 39funders 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