California · Nonprofit
THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER
THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,576 to it, the largest being WWW FOUNDATION ($55,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $239k
- Net assets
- $292k
What The Santa Barbara Birth Center does
Mission
Provide services, support and education to low-risk childbearing women and their families. The birth center offers complete midwifery care for pregnancy and birth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 The Santa Barbara Birth Center was operating fulltime, receiving 55 admissions, performing/managing 46 births and was able to provide five subsidies for low income families. In addition, the birth center provided a venue for community meetings consistent with our mission statement, a full library and childbirth education classes.
$228,597 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $228,597.
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 2019 to 2020, from $260k to $298k (+14%).
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.
37% of THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $44k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER’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
THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
34% 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 SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 75% · 2019 71% · 2020 75% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% — 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
63% of THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
58% of THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER: 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 THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER?
- THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,576 to it, the largest being WWW FOUNDATION ($55,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $238,576 in grants to THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER?
- WWW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SANTA BARBARA BIRTH CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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