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SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,719,687 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($1,220,768). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals does
Mission
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. Both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training programs, and a relinquishment program for owners who can no longer care for their pets. Homeless animals receive medical care, shelter, and basic behavior training until their adoption.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Veterinary care: families utilized shelter clinic services for care for their animals from basic services like vaccines to more intense needs like enucleations and amputations. Of the 41,497 services performed in 2025 at affordable costs, 5,166 families utilized the donor-supported tlc veterinary fund. Because prohibitive veterinary costs are a common reason why families relinquish their pets, this program ultimately kept animals healthy and in their homes.
$4,538,643 spent$2,245,609 earned by the program64% of program spendingSheltering and adoptions: our shelter receives animals from a variety of sources: owner-surrenders, transfers, and strays. Each animal that arrives requires basic medical care, and most need sterilization surgery before they can be adopted. A significant portion of our program expenses is devoted to ensuring these animals live in a safe and healthy environment. Our dedicated staff provides comprehensive care, including veterinary treatment and medication; behavior assessment and training; nourishing food; daily socialization, exercise, and enrichment; and the supplies needed for seamless shelter adoptions. In 2025, we took in 1,024 animals surrendered by their owners, 960 cats and dogs from overcrowded shelters across california, and 420 local stray animals. Thanks to the individualized, quality care they received at santa barbara humane, 2,223 animals found loving homes in 2025.
$2,498,733 spent$296,664 earned by the program36% of program spendingTraining: our dog training classes are a vital 'safety net' for preventing surrenders due to behavioral issues. When owners struggle with behavior challenges, we offer affordable or fully subsidized group classes and consultations to help keep pets in their homes. In 2025, 778 dogs participated in these classes and one-on-one sessions with their owners, successfully diverting hundreds of potential intakes and strengthening the human-animal bond. Our manager of animal behavior, a certified professional dog trainer, develops classes that cover puppy socialization, basic manners, classes for shy dogs, and strategies for managing reactivity. Shelter dogs also benefit from individualized training plans crafted by our behavior & adoption specialists, using positive reinforcement techniques.
$296,893 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,037,376.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $42M to $49M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Kerri Burns
CEO
Board chair
John Corby
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $125k → $603k.
10 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 70% · 2019 49% · 2020 48% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 41% — 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
62% of SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
73% of SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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.
Against its field
SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has grown faster than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (California) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,719,687 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($1,220,768). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $3,719,687 in grants to SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,220,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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