California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,710,450 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($1,500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mosher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Fund for Santa Barbara Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
44% of SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.9M → $137k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 79% · 2022 97% · 2023 29% — 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.
Where its funders are
SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $982k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 162 organizations that share your funders · funds 245 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mosher Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Santa Barbara Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 114 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Ecology Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Alliance With Family Farmersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zero Foodprintportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Farmers Markets Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalCA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- Farmers Market Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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 SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,710,450 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($1,500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,710,450 in grants to SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
- MANITOU FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA AGRICULTURE & FARM EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 15funders 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