California · Nonprofit
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,403,582 to it, the largest being Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ($4,242,882). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $90M
What Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc does
Mission
It is the mission of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (SYVCH) to provide superior health care for and improve the health care of our communities through a commitment to our core values of excellence, integrity, and compassion. SYVCH is a rural hospital and is designated a critical access hospital. The hospital provides critical emergency services which allow for local stabilization of the patient and transfer to an affiliated hospital that provides a higher level of care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital is a 11-bed acute-care hospital located in the rural area known as the Santa Ynez Valley. In 2024, the Hospital had 485 patient days, served 32,037 outpatients including emergency services to 11,168 patients. The Hospital provided essential emergency treatment, inpatient acute care, outpatient surgical services, imaging diagnostic services, infusion services and cardiac rehabilitation services to the residents of the Santa Ynez Valley, including the communities of Solvang, Buellton, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos, and Ballard. Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital provides emergency services to anyone seeking care, regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital is diligent in ensuring that all patients have adequate access to care. All patients who do not present with insurance are automatically screened for eligibility in government health programs and are assisted in applying for financial assistance if the patient does not qualify for any other assistance. Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital provides critical funding for community health and education with external grants, while also realizing shortfalls Medi-Cal and indigent care. External grants were…
$25,369,729 spentof which $852,059 as grants$32,509,168 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,369,729.
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.
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 $64M to $74M (+16%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 16% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Ronald Werft
President & CEO
Board chair
Steven Zola
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $1.1M.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital 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 Cottage Hospital Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
98% 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 Cottage Hospital Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 88% · 2022 99% · 2023 94% — 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
60% of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital · exempt
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital · exempt
- Goleta Valley Professional Buildings Inc · exempt
- Cottage Health · exempt
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc?
- Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,403,582 to it, the largest being Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation ($4,242,882). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $4,403,582 in grants to Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Inc?
- Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,242,882 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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