California · Nonprofit
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC
SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $856k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Santa Ynez Valley Airport Authority Inc does
Mission
Syvaa leases, manages and operates the santy ynez valley airport for the benefit of santa barbara county, the community in which the airport is located, and the airport users. The airport is owned by santa barbara county and operated by 9 elected volunteers known as the santa ynez valley airport authority.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Syvaa is under contract with santa barbara county to operate, manage, maintain and improve the airport facilities for a term of 100 years beginning june 1, 1993 and ending july 31, 2093. Upon contract termination all alterations, additions, and improvements become the property of santa barbara county. Airport improvements are subject to the airport layout/land use plan approved by santa barbara county, the state of california, department of transportation, division of aeronautics, and the federal aviation administration for a term of 20 years beginning in june 2004 and updated every 5 years. Current construction in progress totals 240,323. 40 hangars were leased to airport users, and 46 land leases for owner built hangars. Current year rentals also include airport tiedowns, rental cars, glider ride operations, office space, apcd (air pollution control district) and the usfs (u.s. Forestry service) building.
$456,189 spent$619,180 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $456,189.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $2.7M (+13%).
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: 2017 4% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC’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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
72% of SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Transportation$1.5M
- Department of Agriculture$87k
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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC: 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 YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC?
- SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($30,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $42,500 in grants to SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA YNEZ VALLEY AIRPORT AUTHORITY INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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