California · Nonprofit
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc (California) receives grants from 241 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,921,516 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($6,524,015). 155 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 241
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $46M
What Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc does
Mission
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in Santa Barbara County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the past 40 years, the Foodbank has served as the central hub for the sourcing and distributing food resources to low-income families suffering from food insecurity. Operating from warehouses in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria, it supplies over 12 million pounds of fresh produce and nutritious groceries each year through a network of 200+ nonprofit partners, health programs, and schools. The Foodbank's operations span not just the county, but also the country through its membership in Feeding America, a national network of 200+ Food Banks.The 2019 County Disaster Relief Plan designated the Foodbank a lead agency in coordinating the county's nonprofits and governmental agencies in all emergency food relief efforts.Last fiscal year:- We distributed 11.5 million pounds of food to those in need. Including nearly, 5 million pounds of fresh produce and nutritious groceries.- We served 202,616 total unduplicated low-income individuals.- Of all clients served, 37% were children (0-17 years old); and 11% were older adults (60 years or older).- Of all clients served, 50% were female; and 80% were of Latinx/Hispanicindividuals.- A total 1,964 volunteers contributed 30,578 hours of their…
$25,124,675 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,124,675.
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 $22M to $47M (+114%).
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 8% · 2018 5% · 2019 7% · 2020 3% · 2021 41% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Erik Talkin
CEO
Board chair
Christine Bisson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 46 funders to 110 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $6.4M.
35 of 241 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 241 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
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
32% 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 48% · 2019 55% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 25% · 2023 16% — 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
45% of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
80% of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$98k
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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: 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 Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc?
- Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc (California) receives grants from 241 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,921,516 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($6,524,015). 155 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 241 organizations giving $46,921,516 in grants to Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc, 155 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,524,015 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc 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 241 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing