California · Nonprofit
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,107,580 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($823,045). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County does
Mission
Domestic violence solutions of santa barbara county is dedicated to providing safe harbor to all victims of domestic violence and their children throughout santa barbara county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Domestic violence solutions is the only agency in santa barbara county, ca that provides emergency shelter and supportive services to all survivors of domestic abuse and their children including women, men and lgbt populations. Two shelters are operated in the cities of santa barbara, santa maria and lompoc. During fiscal year 2024-2025, our two shelters provided individuals (adults and children) with 45 day emergency shelter. Families were transitioned to safe housing. Our shelters also operate four crisis and information lines (emergency calls from police, emergency rooms and medical offices, private callers). During this period dvs provided critically needed "safety bed nights" to those individuals and their children at severe risk and fleeing their homes due to domestic violence.
$1,842,900 spentof which $288,940 as grants$1,900,220 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,842,900.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.8M to $5.5M (+15%).
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: 2017 58% · 2018 37% · 2020 9% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Ken Oplinger
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $312k → $215k.
9 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
43% 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 39% · 2019 35% · 2020 41% · 2021 49% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
89% of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's revenue grew 74% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $673k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$673k
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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
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 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,107,580 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($823,045). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,107,580 in grants to DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $823,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR 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 55 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