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SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC

SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,676 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$304k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$354k
Net assets
$956k
6/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Santa Barbara Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers Inc does

Mission

Maintain and improve Santa Barbara trails to reduce risk and increase the enjoyment of all users.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Trail design, construction, and maintenance in line with the mission was undertaken in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties on public lands.

    $323,282 spent$262,108 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,282.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($132k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($227k)2021 Revenue 247 ($327k) Expenses 570 ($233k) Net assets 195 ($442k)2022 Revenue 230 ($303k) Expenses 596 ($244k) Net assets 221 ($502k)2023 Revenue 491 ($650k) Expenses 1126 ($460k) Net assets 305 ($691k)2024 Revenue 620 ($819k) Expenses 1281 ($523k) Net assets 478 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 230 ($304k) Expenses 1056 ($432k) Net assets 422 ($956k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (230)Expenses (1056)Net assets (422)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $691k to $1.1M (+57%).

$227k
$442k
$502k
$691k
$1.1M
$956k
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 15% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$91k
’19
$94k
’21
$60k
’22
$189k
’23
$296k
’24
−$127k
’25
23
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.

Board chair

Tory Thomasco

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed88888
Joined·+0+0+1+6
No longer listed·0016
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $11k → $116k.

8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC’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 MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC.

27%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 48% · 2020 69% · 2021 47% · 2022 93% · 2023 27% — 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

17% of SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

60% of SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC'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 $141k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.

WA
NY
NV
PA
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−42% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve22.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 22%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC?
SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,676 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $353,676 in grants to SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL VOLUNTEERS INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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