Cottage Health
Santa Barbara, CA · EIN 77-0431902. Reported 56 grants totalling $3,080,941 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cottage Health, the IRS classifies it under religion rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE X00Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 26% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $44,121. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $67,250; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $216,386. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara, CA | $380,848 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Calm Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $302,123 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ocprhio Inc | Santa Ana, CA | $249,167 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | Santa Barbara, CA | $229,677 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara County Education Office | Santa Barbara | $182,028 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse | Santa Barbara, CA | $175,351 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California State University Channel Islands Foundation | Camarillo, CA | $168,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carpinteria Childrens Project | Carpinteria, CA | $150,019 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wilderness Youth Project Incorporated | Santa Barbara, CA | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley | Santa Maria, CA | $122,796 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Aunt Bertha a Public Benefit Corporation | $117,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Isla Vista Youth Project Inc | Goleta, CA | $100,736 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Harding School Foundation Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $89,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Department of Social Services | Santa Barbara, CA | $64,314 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization | Lompoc, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara Alternatives to Violence Project | Santa Barbara, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Santa Ynez Valley People Helping People | Solvang, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria | Carpinteria, CA | $53,740 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Legacy Philanthropy Works | Santa Barbara, CA | $52,610 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lompoc Unified School District | Lompoc, CA | $42,409 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Ca Regents | Santa Barbara, CA | $41,964 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Aha Attitude Harmony Achievement | Santa Barbara, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Indian Health & Services Corporation | Santa Barbara, CA | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Maria Swim Club Inc | Santa Maria, CA | $24,365 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peoples Self-Help Housing | San Luis Obispo, CA | $23,710 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advancing Collective Transformation | Santa Barbara, CA | $14,740 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alliance for Community Transformation | Santa Barbara, CA | $14,740 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Association of Operating Room Nurses Inc | Denver, CO | $10,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Resource and Referral of Santa Barbara County | Santa Maria, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara County Education Office | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $9,904 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
14 of 35 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Family Service Agencycris
Provide mental health support to children and youth, including those with Adverse Childhood Experiences. - Csuci Foundation
Support for Bachelor's in Nursing program in Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara Cnty Educ Office
Connect families with adverse childhood experiences with clinic providers to prevent poor health outcomes. - Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
Support of neighborhood health clinics for low income patients - Aunt Bertha a Public Benefit Corporation
Basic needs (e.g., food, housing, transportation) referral technology set-up - Council on Alcoholism & Drug
Provide parenting education programs that will support parents of children and adolescents with culturally relevant parenting skills training.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $718,177 | $47,166 |
| 2022 | 27 | $1,841,321 | $53,740 |
| 2023 | 9 | $342,500 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 6 | $178,943 | $13,683 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $44,121 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cottage Health's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 689 Attn Finance Dept, Santa Barbara, CA, 93102.
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