Womens Fund of Santa Barbara

Analysis

Womens Fund of Santa Barbara is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Barbara, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2019, 7 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 publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Womens Fund of Santa Barbara reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.0m, leaving 21% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.3m to $1.3m (+2.0%), an average of +0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Womens Fund of Santa Barbara sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of South Sarasota County Inc ($1.3m), Jack G Buncher Charitable Fund Forthe United Jewish Federation of PGH ($1.3m) and Rileys Way Foundation Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.2m against liabilities of $277k, net assets of $1.9m.