California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH
SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,265 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($251,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $444k
What Santa Barbara School of Squash does
Mission
To help underserved students succeed in life through squash, education, and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose of the program is to provide consistent and reliable academic and athletic support, instruction, and guidance to underserved children attending schools in santa barbara county and their families. In the current year, sbsos provided services for 57 students, 29 girls and 28 boys, 30 of whom were in 5-12th grade and 27 were in college. 100% of the childrens' family income meets the "low income or less criteria as defined by the california department of housing and community development. In addition to squash practices, squash tournaments, and homework and schoolwork help, the students take part in community service events that total over 500 hours annually. 100% of the sbsos program high school seniors have graduated high school and been accepted to college.
$213,552 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $213,552.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $258k to $444k (+72%).
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 28% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Robert Graham
Executive director
Board chair
Frank Huerta
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $54k → $129k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH’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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
56% 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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 22% · 2019 28% · 2020 19% · 2021 19% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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
47% of SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH'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
54% of SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH'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 $558k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH: 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 SCHOOL OF SQUASH?
- SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,265 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($251,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,205,265 in grants to SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $251,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL OF SQUASH 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 2020–2025), 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