Highland Santa Barbara Foundation Inc

Analysis

Highland Santa Barbara Foundation Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Dallas, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Highland Santa Barbara Foundation Inc reported income of $18.3m and spending of $495k, leaving 97% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $7.1m to $18.3m (+157%), an average of +27% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 574%. Over the whole period it spent 2.1% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Highland Santa Barbara Foundation Inc sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The M S Hershey Foundation ($18.2m), Childrens Cancer Research Fund ($18.4m) and Springfield Foundation ($18.1m).

At year end it held assets of $91.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $91.0m.