California · Nonprofit
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation (California) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,725,053 to it, the largest being INDIAN PAINTBRUSH FOUNDATION ($10,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalportfolio match
- Gainey Foundationportfolio match
- William H Kearns Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
73% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $423k → $1.7M.
16 of 94 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Barbara Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 94 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
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 12% · 2019 57% · 2020 27% · 2021 13% · 2022 83% · 2023 21% — 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
55% of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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 94 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gainey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William H Kearns Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William P Neil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Reitman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pajadoro Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James S Bower Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- The John C Mithun Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitableshared fundersTX · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Williams-Corbett Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
- June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Trshared fundersCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- The Wood-Claeyssens Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
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 Cottage Hospital Foundation
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- SBCH Foundation RE LLC · disregarded
- Cottage Health · exempt
- Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital · exempt
- Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc · exempt
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: 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 Cottage Hospital Foundation?
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation (California) receives grants from 94 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,725,053 to it, the largest being INDIAN PAINTBRUSH FOUNDATION ($10,000,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 94 organizations giving $21,725,053 in grants to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation?
- INDIAN PAINTBRUSH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 94funders 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