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DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA

DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,133 to it, the largest being THE GRASSINI FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,133). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$462k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$3k
Grants received
$354k
Net assets
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($141k)2018 Revenue 88 ($1.2M) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 32 ($44k)2019 Revenue 87 ($1.2M) Expenses 84 ($1.2M) Net assets 25 ($36k)2020 Revenue 79 ($1.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets -2 ($-3033)2021 Revenue 43 ($582k) Expenses 28 ($381k) Net assets 138 ($195k)2022 Revenue 59 ($792k) Expenses 41 ($566k) Net assets 299 ($420k)2023 Revenue 59 ($790k) Expenses 53 ($731k) Net assets 341 ($480k)2024 Revenue 56 ($753k) Expenses 55 ($755k) Net assets 340 ($478k)2025 Revenue 35 ($462k) Expenses 43 ($586k) Net assets 251 ($354k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (35)Expenses (43)Net assets (251)

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 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 87% · 2021 93% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% · 2024 72% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’17
−$96k
’18
$14k
’19
−$28k
’20
$200k
’21
$226k
’22
$59k
’23
−$2k
’24
−$124k
’25
6.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

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 DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA

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

Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc83%Downtown Burbank Partnership Inc82%Downtown Business Association of Escondido82%Visit Santa Barbara81%Fund for Santa Barbara Inc81%Sacramento Downtown Partnership Inc80%North San Diego Business Chamber80%San Diego Regional Chamber Foundation80%

Nationally

The Downtown Council84%Downtown Partners Inc83%Downtown Fort Worth Inc83%Downtown San Diego Partnership Inc83%Downtown Burbank Partnership Inc82%Downtown Business Association of Escondido82%Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc82%Downtown South Bend Inc Foundation82%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA: 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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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 DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA?
DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,133 to it, the largest being THE GRASSINI FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,133). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,133 in grants to DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA?
THE GRASSINI FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNTOWN ORGANIZATION OF SANTA BARBARA 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 1funders 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