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SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,576 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$61k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$395k
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%

Against its field

SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2019 Revenue 238 ($120k) Expenses 240 ($91k) Net assets 199 ($58k)2020 Revenue 299 ($151k) Expenses 262 ($99k) Net assets 376 ($110k)2021 Revenue 893 ($452k) Expenses 423 ($161k) Net assets 1370 ($401k)2022 Revenue 215 ($109k) Expenses 1178 ($447k) Net assets 215 ($63k)2023 Revenue 262 ($132k) Expenses 371 ($141k) Net assets 186 ($54k)2024 Revenue 53 ($27k) Expenses 57 ($22k) Net assets 162 ($48k)2025 Revenue 121 ($61k) Expenses 113 ($43k) Net assets 225 ($66k)
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Revenue (121)Expenses (113)Net assets (225)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
18
$29k
19
$52k
20
$291k
21
$338k
22
$9k
23
$5k
24
$18k
25
30
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $43k → $48k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)80% 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 MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY 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.

How concentrated its funding is

SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

63%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 100% · 2023 95%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.

Where its funders are

80% of SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION'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 $77k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

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

21
22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

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 MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: 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 MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,576 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $394,576 in grants to SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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