California · Nonprofit
SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT
SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($34,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,980 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,980 youth development nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Fund for Santa Barbara Inclocalportfolio match
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Junior League of Santa Barbaralocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT’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
100% of SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
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.
- Fund for Santa Barbara Inclocalportfolio matchCA · funds 114 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 46 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Junior League of Santa Barbaralocalportfolio matchCA · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cottage Healthlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Linden Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- California State Soccer Assoc Southportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Don and Barbara Chapin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Olympic Club Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Youth Soccer Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Go Campaignportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sacramento Consolidated Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph & Katherine Castucci Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 YOUTH PROJECT
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 YOUTH PROJECT: 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.
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 YOUTH PROJECT?
- SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($34,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,000 in grants to SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT?
- MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA BARBARA YOUTH PROJECT 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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