California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION
SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,799,611 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($730,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $605k
What Santa Barbara Police Foundation does
Mission
To support the men and women of the santa barbara police department.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Santa Barbara Police Foundation supports the santa barbara police department by raising community awareness and by providing mechanisms to procure funding for three primary purposes: (1) funding to assist a fallen officer lost in the line of duty or to a catastrophic illness (2) funding to assist an officer's immediate family or a police department employee who suffers a catastrophic illness (3) funding for the police department to purchase necessary equipment beyond the department's budgetary abilities.
$96,086 spentof which $22,750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $96,086.
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 2021 to 2022, from $536k to $215k (−60%).
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.
130% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $159k → $139k.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 POLICE FOUNDATION’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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 76% · 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 33% · 2023 18% — 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
26% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
88% of SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION
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
55%
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 POLICE FOUNDATION: 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 POLICE FOUNDATION?
- SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,799,611 to it, the largest being THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION ($730,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,799,611 in grants to SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION?
- THE WOOD-CLAEYSSENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION 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 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