California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,640 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($107,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society does
Mission
The purpose of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (sbcgs) is to promote study and research in genealogy by providing assistance and educational opportunities for those who are interested in pursuing their family history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The society maintains a 20,000 volume research library that is open to the public at no charge. The society publishes a quarterly journal, and a monthly newsletter. Society members have extracted selected local historical records with many published on the society's web site. Classes, special interest groups, as well as outreach programs including talks and presentations to young people are a part of society activities. In addition to the above the society is also involved with the following: operation of library; includes information technology support, supplies and book repair, janitorial and utilities costs, education; includes monthly meetings with lecture and discussion groups and periodic seminars devoted to one or more specific topics. Acquisition of library holdings; included book and other document purchases and subscription to pay databases.
$132,803 spent$5,309 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $132,803.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $2.7M (+7%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY’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 COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 86% · 2020 94% · 2021 83% · 2022 92% · 2023 87% — 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
92% of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
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 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: 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 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY?
- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,640 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($107,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $117,640 in grants to SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 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 5 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