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SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK

SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,398,802 to it, the largest being WENDY P MCCAW FOUNDATION THE GOLDMAN SACHS ($2,400,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.8M
Revenue FY2025
65
Funders on record
$6.4M
Grants received
$8.9M
Net assets
42/65 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

Against its field

SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 606 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 606 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($618k) Expenses 100 ($503k) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 122 ($752k) Expenses 137 ($690k) Net assets 99 ($5.3M)2020 Revenue 209 ($1.3M) Expenses 217 ($1.1M) Net assets 102 ($5.5M)2021 Revenue 580 ($3.6M) Expenses 306 ($1.5M) Net assets 149 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 538 ($3.3M) Expenses 336 ($1.7M) Net assets 170 ($9.2M)2023 Revenue 374 ($2.3M) Expenses 439 ($2.2M) Net assets 168 ($9.1M)2024 Revenue 362 ($2.2M) Expenses 514 ($2.6M) Net assets 163 ($8.8M)2025 Revenue 451 ($2.8M) Expenses 522 ($2.6M) Net assets 166 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (451)Expenses (522)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$116k
17
$63k
18
$201k
20
$2.1M
21
$1.6M
22
$108k
23
$345k
24
$166k
25
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $110k → $945k.

15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)21% 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 WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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

38%
largest funder
53%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 21%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

65% of SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 13 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
CO
VA
DE
HI
TX

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 65 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 11%Fundraising 16%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK?
SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,398,802 to it, the largest being WENDY P MCCAW FOUNDATION THE GOLDMAN SACHS ($2,400,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK have?
IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $6,398,802 in grants to SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK?
WENDY P MCCAW FOUNDATION THE GOLDMAN SACHS is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK 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 65funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing