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SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION

SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,311 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($79,545). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$157k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$191k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Santa Barbara Club Preservation Foundation does

Mission

The organization strives to support the preservation of the historic structures in and around santa barbara county including educating and informing the public by acquiring, restoring, preserving, and maintaining historically significant buildings and structures including, but not necessarily limited to the historic clubhouse and surrounding structures of the santa barbara club, a california nonprofit corporation, and making such property available for public viewing.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Grants made support the preservation of historic structures of santa barbara county, including, but not necessarily limited to the historic clubhouse and surrounding structures of the santa barbara club, a california nonprofit corporation.

    $158,012 spentof which $154,768 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $158,012.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($103k)2018 Revenue 38 ($50k) Expenses 23 ($11k) Net assets 138 ($142k)2019 Revenue 63 ($83k) Expenses 349 ($167k) Net assets 56 ($58k)2020 Revenue 83 ($110k) Expenses 60 ($29k) Net assets 136 ($139k)2021 Revenue 91 ($121k) Expenses 162 ($77k) Net assets 178 ($182k)2022 Revenue 84 ($111k) Expenses 266 ($127k) Net assets 162 ($166k)2023 Revenue 81 ($108k) Expenses 216 ($104k) Net assets 166 ($170k)2024 Revenue 114 ($151k) Expenses 238 ($114k) Net assets 202 ($207k)2025 Revenue 119 ($157k) Expenses 364 ($174k) Net assets 186 ($191k)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (364)Net assets (186)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $173k to $90k (−48%).

$134k
$173k
$90k
$139k
$182k
$166k
$170k
$213k
$196k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’17
$39k
’18
−$84k
’19
$81k
’20
$43k
’21
−$16k
’22
$4k
’23
$37k
’24
−$17k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $23k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION’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 CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% 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 CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION.

47%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 46% · 2021 83% · 2022 74% · 2023 67% — 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

100% of SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

63% of SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $64k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NY
CA
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION?
SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,311 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($79,545). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $170,311 in grants to SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $79,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
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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 9 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