California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC
SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,435 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($590,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $658k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $810k
What Santa Barbara Police Activities League Inc does
Mission
The santa barbara police activities league (sbpal) builds bridges between youth, law enforcement, and the community through mentorship, leadership, and academic enrichment. We maintain an open-door policy for all youth ages 11-18, with a focus on those who may not have yet found their voice or niche. Our goal is to empower youth to achieve success beyond high school, and for the past nine years sbpal has maintained a 100% graduation rate, with all graduates pursuing college, military service, or trade school. Since 1999, sbpal has expanded from serving 50 youth to providing no-cost programming to over 1,300 youth annually, helping them develop self-confidence, leadership skills, academic achievement, and community connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The pal twelve35 teen center serves as a central hub for youth ages 11-18 in downtown santa barbara. Open monday through friday from 3:00-6:30 pm with no registration fees, the center provides a safe, welcoming environment for over 1,000 youth each year. Teens engage in academic support, leadership development, mentorship, and community service, building positive relationships with peers, law enforcement, and community members.
$261,013 spent$3,288 earned by the program60% of program spendingThrough a collaboration with 15 partner agencies, sbpal coordinates the campership alliance, which distributes over 500 camp scholarships to youth ages 3-18 each year. Sbpal serves as the central hub for qualifying, registering, and allocating scholarships, and provides transportation as needed. This program ensures equitable access to enriching summer experiences for youth from diverse backgrounds.
$10,810 spent$10,169 earned by the program2% of program spendingSbpal organizes community-based events to strengthen connections between youth, families, and law enforcement. Trunk or treat engages 30 local organizations to serve over 1,000 children in a safe environment. Winter wonderland provides more than 150 gifts and a holiday meal to local families in need. Sbpal also operates the bridge mentoring program in partnership with the police advisory cadre, where police officers mentor youth multiple times a month through activities such as fishing, snorkeling and surfing. This program builds trust, develops life skills, and provides consistent guidance to support youth in achieving future success.
$162,147 spentof which $33,400 as grants37% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $433,970.
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 2023 to 2024, from $444k to $766k (+73%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Judith Lugo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $139k → $159k.
3 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Barbara Police Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
32% 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 POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 43% · 2019 55% · 2020 30% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 32% — 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
35% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
77% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC?
- SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,435 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($590,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,567,435 in grants to SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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