Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation

Analysis

Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Summerland, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover food, agriculture and nutrition, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation reported income of $619k and spending of $822k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2023, income grew from $457k to $619k (+35%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 291%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Santa Barbara Agriculture and Farm Education Foundation sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 75th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mansfield Firemens Ambulance Association Inc ($619k), Believe Foundation ($619k) and McGivney Community Center Inc ($618k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $208k. At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $857k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 25 employees.