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THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,239,761 to it, the largest being THE PATRICIA AND PAUL BRAGG FOUNDATION ($4,100,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$13M
Revenue FY2025
61
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
48/61 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 157 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 157 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($16M)2018 Revenue 191 ($8.9M) Expenses 454 ($7.6M) Net assets 107 ($17M)2019 Revenue 65 ($3.0M) Expenses 122 ($2.0M) Net assets 114 ($18M)2020 Revenue 120 ($5.6M) Expenses 529 ($8.9M) Net assets 94 ($15M)2021 Revenue 150 ($7.0M) Expenses 289 ($4.8M) Net assets 119 ($19M)2022 Revenue 384 ($18M) Expenses 924 ($15M) Net assets 116 ($18M)2023 Revenue 104 ($4.9M) Expenses 159 ($2.7M) Net assets 135 ($21M)2024 Revenue 466 ($22M) Expenses 1261 ($21M) Net assets 149 ($23M)2025 Revenue 279 ($13M) Expenses 297 ($5.0M) Net assets 187 ($29M)
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Revenue (279)Expenses (297)Net assets (187)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 1% · 2020 37% · 2021 26% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 79% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
17
$1.3M
18
$992k
19
$3.3M
20
$2.1M
21
$2.4M
22
$2.2M
23
$564k
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$8.0M
25
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $663k → $2.2M.

16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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

THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

33% 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 THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.

27%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 46% · 2022 22% · 2023 26%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

57% of THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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

82% of THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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. Your 61 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.

Government funding THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $148k on record.

Federal$148k
grants $148kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$148k

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 THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hartnell Ranch LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: 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 THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,239,761 to it, the largest being THE PATRICIA AND PAUL BRAGG FOUNDATION ($4,100,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $15,239,761 in grants to THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY?
THE PATRICIA AND PAUL BRAGG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY 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 61funders 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