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SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,426 to it, the largest being VIT IVANO P IRREV TRUST TAI ($31,426). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$92k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$780k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Santa Barbara Rotary Charitable Foundation does

Mission

To obtain & provide funds exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, & to receive gifts & grants of money & property of every kind & to administer the same exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Local grants - numerous other local charitable programs primarily aimed at youth services from medical aid, after school programs, and drug addiction intervention, to social services for foster kids, etc.

    $47,360 spentof which $22,800 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Eradication of worldwide polio - through rotary international programs: paul harris directed funds and polio plus.

  3. Natun gatuelama - to assist with development of improverished areas of guatemala and its indigenous residents. Foundation members travel to guatemala to at their own cost annually to monitor and implement programs such as electrificiation, clean water, education, and health.

  4. Teacher recognition & youth services

  5. Direct relief - providing support for los angeles fire victims.

  6. Rotary foundation of rotary international - paul harris. Supporting the work of rotary international.

  7. Family care network - providing support for local foster youth.

The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,360.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($530k)2018 Revenue 66 ($69k) Expenses 74 ($52k) Net assets 108 ($574k)2019 Revenue 84 ($88k) Expenses 72 ($50k) Net assets 108 ($574k)2020 Revenue 69 ($72k) Expenses 78 ($55k) Net assets 104 ($553k)2021 Revenue 61 ($64k) Expenses 68 ($47k) Net assets 139 ($737k)2022 Revenue 82 ($85k) Expenses 70 ($49k) Net assets 118 ($625k)2023 Revenue 45 ($47k) Expenses 72 ($50k) Net assets 126 ($666k)2024 Revenue 112 ($116k) Expenses 64 ($44k) Net assets 139 ($738k)2025 Revenue 89 ($92k) Expenses 72 ($50k) Net assets 147 ($780k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (89)Expenses (72)Net assets (147)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 2020 to 2021, from $564k to $740k (+31%).

$560k
$589k
$590k
$564k
$740k
$628k
$669k
$740k
$783k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$17k
’18
$38k
’19
$17k
’20
$16k
’21
$36k
’22
−$3k
’23
$72k
’24
$42k
’25
4.1
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed9109899999
Joined·+1+3+0+3+6+4+1+1
No longer listed·04126411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

MN

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

’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

40%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Rotary Club of Santa Barbara · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,426 to it, the largest being VIT IVANO P IRREV TRUST TAI ($31,426). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,426 in grants to SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
VIT IVANO P IRREV TRUST TAI is the largest funder on record, with $31,426 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA ROTARY CHARITABLE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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