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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being STEPHANIE AND PETER NOLAN FOUNDATION ($700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$287k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$700
Net assets
$-3168
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau does

Mission

To protect and advance the social, economic, and educational interests of the farmers of santa barbara county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. California farm bureau federation program - to provide better conditions to those engaged in agriculture and to develop efficiency and improvement of product quality.

  2. Oak tree program - regeneration program to provide oak trees to residents of santa barbara county.

  3. Celebrate harvest program - provides revenue for school education programs throughout santa barbara county.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($211k) Expenses 100 ($257k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2021 Revenue 108 ($227k) Expenses 97 ($249k) Net assets 62 ($35k)2022 Revenue 118 ($248k) Expenses 94 ($242k) Net assets 73 ($41k)2023 Revenue 110 ($232k) Expenses 107 ($274k) Net assets -1 ($-483)2024 Revenue 109 ($230k) Expenses 98 ($253k) Net assets -41 ($-23437)2025 Revenue 136 ($287k) Expenses 104 ($267k) Net assets -6 ($-3168)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (104)Net assets (-6)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $379k to $325k (−14%).

$430k
$389k
$379k
$325k
$287k
$286k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 20% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 17% · 2024 17% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$46k
’20
−$22k
’21
$6k
’22
−$42k
’23
−$23k
’24
$20k
’25
7.2
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed891311912
Joined·+2+4+0+0+3
No longer listed·10220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU: 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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU?
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $700 to it, the largest being STEPHANIE AND PETER NOLAN FOUNDATION ($700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $700 in grants to SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU?
STEPHANIE AND PETER NOLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FARM BUREAU 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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