Fund for Santa Barbara Inc
Santa Barbara, CA · EIN 77-0070742. Reported 112 grants totalling $1,656,320 to 60 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 Fund for Santa Barbara Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $100,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $120,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Martin Luther King JR Committee of Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $83,300 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gateway Educational Services | Santa Barbara, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Baltimore, MD | $68,860 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Healing Justice Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $68,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| C4 Lompoc Collective Cultures Creating Change | Lompoc, CA | $63,070 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara, CA | $62,500 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cause Action Fund | Ventura, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara County Action Network | Santa Maria, CA | $60,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood California Central Coast | Santa Barbara, CA | $58,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley | Santa Maria, CA | $48,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Blue Sky Sustainable Living Center | New Cuyama, CA | $47,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Freedom 4 Youth | Santa Barbara, CA | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Future Leaders of America | Oxnard, CA | $36,530 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just Communities Central Coast | Santa Barbara, CA | $35,400 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Comite Quelaguetza | Santa Maria, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Pacific Pride Foundation Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project | Oxnard, CA | $31,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Access Central Coast | Santa Barbara, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Community Action | Santa Maria, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Savie Health Corp | Lompoc, CA | $28,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| USA Green Communities | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy | Ventura, CA | $20,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 805 Undocufund | Lompoc, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Advancing Collective Transformation | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Health Centers of the Central Coast Inc | Nipomo, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peoples Justice Project Inc | Goleta, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara Response Network | Santa Barbara, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sbcan | Santa Maria, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northern Chumash Tribal Council | Los Osos, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace | Sn Luis Obisp, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc | Arcata, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zona Seca | Santa Barbara, CA | $18,380 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| House of Pride and Equality | Santa Maria, CA | $17,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Santa Barbara NAACP | Baltimore, MD | $17,500 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Committee for Social Justice | Santa Barbara, CA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Route One Farmers Market | Lompoc, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Awakening Giantz Inc | Santa Maria, CA | $15,530 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Amigos De Guadal | Guadalupe, CA | $13,200 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Association of University Women | Lompoc, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barbareno Ventureno Band of Mission Indians | Ojai, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carpinteria Childrens Project | Carpinteria, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children and Family Resource Services | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Environmental Council Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Environmental Defense Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization | Lompoc, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Santa Barbara Manufactu | Santa Maria, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara County Food Action Network | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara Lower Westside | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| True Nature Society | Maricopa, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Buen Vecino | Westlake Vlg, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diversity Collective Ventura County | Ventura, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diversity Coalition Slo Count | Ventura, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ventura County Arts Council | Ventura, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wishtoyo Foundation | Ventura, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| C4 Lompoc Collective Cult | Lompoc, CA | $7,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Future for Lompoc Youth | Lompoc, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ahc Foundat | Santa Maria, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
29 of 60 (48%) 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.
- Santa Barbara Foundation
Preservation of Black Leg - Cultural & Creative Arts Ce
Equitable Access to our Culture & A - Savie Health Corp
Movement Building/Stop the Hate - San Luis Obispo Mothers for P
Close Diablo Nuclear Plant - Blue Sky Ctr
Spring 78-Cuyama Valley Victory - Children and Family Resour
Spring 78-SM women's health equity
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 46 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 22 | $235,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $514,650 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 34 | $442,890 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $463,780 | $10,000 |
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
95% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
20 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 44 grants totalling $1,388,519 to Fund for Santa Barbara Inc. That is 50% of the 40 funders we can see giving to it. Those 20 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
10 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The James Irvine Foundation | California | $527,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The California Endowment | California | $375,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation | California | $170,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ellen H Atterbury and Malcolm Atterbury JR | Ohio | $86,800 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Evelyn and Walter Haas JR Fund | California | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Michigan | $48,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Florence and Laurence Spungen Family | Illinois | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation | California | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Audacious Foundation | California | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Patricia Bragg Foundation | California | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 20.
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Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $10,000 -- 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 Fund for Santa Barbara Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1528 Chapala Street 303, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.
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