California · Nonprofit
FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY
FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,063,127 to it, the largest being THE HENRY MAYO NEWHALL FOUNDATION ($258,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley does
Mission
To partner with all members of the santa maria community to achieve resilience against substance use, reductions in violence and promote a healthy and safe environment for our youth and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Young-adult homeless services: fbsmv provides support services to the transitional-aged homeless youth (ages 1624) for the santa barbara county and the u.s. Department of housing and urban development (hud). Fbsmv provides street outreach, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing at its four-bedroom facility, the resilient place, and case management services to help youth maintain stable housing and prevent future homelessness. Social emotional support: fbsmv provides targeted social-emotional support for students and families in the santa maria valley for santa maria bonita school district. The target groups are students in foster care, homeless students, truant students, and students involved in conflicts or violence. Students receive case management, somatic regulation techniques, mediation, and peer support. Parents receive support for housing, basic needs, legal services, and educational classes. Justice involved youth services: fbsmv provides justice involved youth services that support youth impacted by the justice system in santa barbara county for the sbc department of probation. Services include case management, reentry support, diversion, conflict mediation,…
$4,132,309 spent$1,633,433 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,132,309.
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 $1.9M to $3.0M (+56%).
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 10% · 2018 8% · 2019 20% · 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 14% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Frank E Weaver
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $68k → $35k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 35% · 2019 41% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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
80% of FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
99% of FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY has grown faster 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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$741k
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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY: 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 FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY?
- FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,063,127 to it, the largest being THE HENRY MAYO NEWHALL FOUNDATION ($258,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,063,127 in grants to FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY?
- THE HENRY MAYO NEWHALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $258,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIGHTING BACK SANTA MARIA VALLEY 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 15 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