California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,170 to it, the largest being WALTER J & HOLLY O THOMSON CHARITABLE ($55,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $394k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation does
Mission
Our mission is to steward the past and present of the presidio neighborhood and inspire preservation advocacy throughout the county in order to create a more vibrant community. We do this by operating el presidio de santa barbara historic park for the state of california. We also own and operate casa de la guerra as a house museum, administrate a facade easement over the historic el paseo shops and offices, and operate the santa ines mission mills state property for california.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
El presidio state historic park - see schedule o
$210,820 spent$138,252 earned by the program13% of program spendingSanta ynez mission mills - see schedule o
$95,730 spent6% of program spendingOther program services - the trust owns and maintains a property adjacent to the presidio park and administers a facade easement over the historic santa barbara el paseo shops and offices. Programs are conducted throughout the community relating to our mission, including the presidio neighborhood, lectures, exhibits, and other projects.
$1,139,677 spent72% of program spendingCasa de la guerra - see schedule o
$144,096 spent$89,852 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,590,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $13M (+19%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Anne Petersen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $79k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 57% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — 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
9% of SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
58% of SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: 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 TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION?
- SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,170 to it, the largest being WALTER J & HOLLY O THOMSON CHARITABLE ($55,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $394,170 in grants to SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION?
- WALTER J & HOLLY O THOMSON CHARITABLE is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 23 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