California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,533,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,799,266). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Santa Barbara Rescue Mission does
Mission
The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is a ministry of christian people bringing physical, emotional, educational and spiritual resources to all who struggle with homelessness and addiction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Men's treatment program: the men's residential treatment program is a 12-month, faith-centered, 12-step social model program. Residents are provided with a living and learning environment that addresses the issues of addiction in a holistic way. The program's core tenet is that recovery occurs in relationships with god, others, and self. The 12-month duration of the residential program allows individuals sufficient time to stabilize, reflect and address deeply-ingrained behaviors, thinking and consequences of years of addiction. Intensive case management, individual counseling, group facilitation, individualized education and vocational training increase the likelihood of treatment completion and, ultimately, long-term recovery.
$1,633,520 spent$86,512 earned by the program42% of program spendingWomen's residential treatment program: bethel house provides a safe environment that promotes healthy relationships and a staff of professionals who understand the needs and challenges of women seeking recovery. The residential treatment program is a 12-month, faith-centered, 12-step social model program. Residents are provided with a living and learning environment that addresses the issues of addiction. Intensive case management, individual counseling, group facilitation, individualized education and vocational training increase the likelihood of treatment completion. Most clients will have struggled with addiction for over a decade, with long stretches of incarceration and homelessness, as 64% of individuals entering treatment come via criminal justice mandates.
$846,991 spent22% of program spendingHomeless guest services: the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is the only organization between oxnard and santa maria that provides hot meals and overnight accommodations seven days a week, 365 days per year for anyone who needs it. Shelter is provided every night for approximately 100 men and 40 women. For the year ended september 30, 2025, the mission provided approximately 78,000 meals and 49,000 overnight stays for the homeless of santa barbara.
$1,358,433 spent35% of program spendingLearning center: the learning center, a component of the recovery program, helps clients to gain new skills and regain old ones. In order to become productive citizens, individuals in recovery must overcome educational obstacles. Clients are assessed and provided an individualized curriculum of writing, reading, computer skills, participating in life skills classes, and strengthening math skills. This also includes resume writing and career development which prepares individuals for full-time employment and lives of productivity within the community. Those that have not completed high school are able to establish a solid educational foundation through ged completion and literacy work. Assessment tests determine programs that best fit their needs and goals. Their individual experience of success is crucial through the completion of this portion of our program.
$97,209 spent$129,197 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,936,153.
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 2017 to 2018, from $10M to $13M (+30%).
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 5% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% 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.
Board chair
Kiah Jordan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 41 funders to 45 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $739k.
14 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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 RESCUE MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
41% 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 RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 22% · 2019 15% · 2020 28% · 2021 60% · 2022 45% · 2023 20% — 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
49% of SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
80% of SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 RESCUE MISSION's revenue grew 23% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
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
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sbrm Support Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION?
- SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,533,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,799,266). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $11,533,143 in grants to SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,799,266 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION 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 110 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing