California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,100 to it, the largest being SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($33,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Volentine Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Roy and Ida Eagle Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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.
97% of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $3k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE’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 SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 100% · 2021 26% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — 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
17% of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
95% of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 154 organizations that share your funders · funds 245 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Volentine Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Roy and Ida Eagle Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- George B Page Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bp Moser Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TKCaresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rudi and Berta Schulte Angels Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitableshared fundersTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Williams-Corbett Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 95 organizations that share your funders · funds 116 organizations near you
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 COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE: 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 COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE?
- SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,100 to it, the largest being SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($33,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $117,100 in grants to SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE?
- SMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE 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 9funders 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