California · Nonprofit
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,621,367 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($306,100). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $820k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine does
Mission
To provide free, volunteer medical care for the most vulnerable, underserved populations in Santa Barbara County, when and where they are in need, including in times of disaster, and to provide education and training to our volunteers and others to promote the excellent practice of humanitarian medicine in our own community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW) has been providing medical assistance to the underserved populations in Santa Barbara County for 17 years. DWW programs address the timely treatment of the medical needs of Santa Barbara County's most vulnerable populations, the working poor and homeless. Our volunteer teams screen, diagnose, record and treat the diseases and illnesses of our clients, in the early stages, so that medical problems do not become acute. DWW conducts medical van weekly daytime street outreach missions (7) and backpack-based walking evening street medicine outreach missions (3). DWW has reopened the weekly Women's Free Homeless Clinic (WFHC) in partnership with Transition House (2 Fridays). Immediately following the Friday clinic, the WFHC conducts medical outreach.
$446,658 spent80% of program spendingThe mission of the Women's Free Homeless Clinic (WFHC) is to provide a safe, trusting, female-only environment in which the unsheltered or marginally sheltered women of Santa Barbara can access medical and mental health care and referrals to community resources. This is achieved by a research-based integrative approach that addresses their basic human needs, while supporting health and further growth. The integrative approach incorporates the following guidelines: meeting immediate physical needs; building trusting relationships; coordinating care with other potential service areas for the individual and addressing behavioral issues as they pertain to the physical health of the individual. WFHC clients will see a clinician for medical needs, receive acupuncture, assistance with applying for housing, insurance, or school, they will be able to do laundry, take showers, attend mental health groups with a mental health specialist, attend self-defense classes, as well as yoga.
$58,817 spent11% of program spendingOur Companion Care teams provide services to our clients in developing care plans and helping clients navigate the healthcare system by accompanying and introducing clients to local medical homes, specialists, or other needed resources. During COVID-19, DWW continued to provide medical services to the most vulnerable populations in Santa Barbara County by practicing street medicine in encampments, abandoned buildings, freeway onramps and offramps and wherever they are. Our Companion Care teams provided education and medical services to reduce the spread of the pandemic while still providing the best medical care possible for unsheltered populations. In April 2023 DWW started our Enhanced Care Management Program providing both clinical and non-clinical care to the unsheltered homeless.
$51,850 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $557,325.
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 2021 to 2022, from $617k to $852k (+38%).
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.
98% of Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Marguerite Sanchez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $193k → $113k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 21% · 2019 40% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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
53% of Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
91% of Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $459k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: 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 Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine?
- Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,621,367 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($306,100). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,621,367 in grants to Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $306,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine 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 31 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