Santa Barbara Foundation ANNUAL REPORT
Responding to Critical Needs
As your community foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation actively connects donors, nonprofits, government, businesses, and the people of this county to take on the challenges that affect us all.
We know that together we can do more.
That’s why we mobilize charitable giving and connect our expertise and resources to yours. Working together, we create meaningful impact on the issues you care about in the communities we all love.
Working Together for Santa Barbara County since 1928
For nearly a century, the Santa Barbara Foundation (SBF), the community foundation serving all of Santa Barbara County, has created meaningful change across the Central Coast through inclusive collaboration, philanthropic partnership, strategic grantmaking, and strengthening local nonprofits. We mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive, and resilient communities. Our vision is a thriving community for all.
The Santa Barbara Foundation, together with our donors, invested $72.8 million through 3,050 grants in 2025. In addition to financial resources, SBF helped address pressing regional challenges — including federal funding cuts and housing affordability — through collaborative research, community dialogue, and support for nonprofit partners. We are honored and humbled to serve as a trusted partner to donors, community members, and local leaders, and to share our expertise to help our community thrive today and for generations to come.
Our Mission
The mission of the Santa Barbara Foundation is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.
Our Vision
A Thriving Community for All
Our Values
Trust: We build trust by prioritizing accountability and transparency in our work and interactions.
Learning: We strive to learn and improve continuously.
Innovation: We are innovative in how we seek solutions and support our communities to thrive.
Inclusion: We cultivate an environment of inclusion, belonging, knowledge, understanding, and well-being.
Respect: We are a respectful community.
Cover photo: Family Service Agency (Photo: Veronica Slavin) Inside cover photo: Hillside (Photo: Hillside)
From Our Leaders
Angel Iscovich, MD & Jackie Carrera
In 2025, Santa Barbara County faced a defining moment. Funding disruptions, rising costs, and deepening uncertainty converged to strain the nonprofit organizations that quietly hold our community together each day. Early federal funding reductions and policy changes created instability; by mid-year, as a new federal budget took effect, essential service providers were being asked to meet greater demand with fewer resources.
Behind those numbers were real families — parents seeking quality child care they could afford, seniors navigating health coverage, and households working to remain stably housed in an increasingly costly region.
At the Santa Barbara Foundation, our mission is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive, and resilient communities. This year, that mission required clarity of purpose, compassion, and steady leadership.
Responding to critical needs became a central focus of our work — from grantmaking and donor engagement to strategic partnerships, nonprofit capacity building, and long-term initiatives.
In September, we launched the Critical Needs Response Fund (CNRF) to provide rapid, flexible support to nonprofits experiencing funding losses or surging demand. The fund helps stabilize organizations providing food,
and family support — ensuring essential services remain available when our neighbors need them most.
Its impact has been especially meaningful for organizations supporting families facing heightened fear and instability due to immigration enforcement and related policy shifts.
Through responsive grants, we strengthened legal assistance, emergency support, health enrollment navigation, youth services, and community-based rapid response networks — helping trusted local organizations remain steady anchors during a time of uncertainty.
At the same time, we continued advancing long-term strategies that reinforce our community’s social infrastructure.
Child care remains one of the most urgent needs in Santa Barbara County, consuming an average of 28% of a family’s monthly budget in many communities — sometimes exceeding housing costs. Recent investments helped create more than 1,500 new infant and toddler spaces, yet significant shortages persist. Sustained support for facilities and providers is essential to ensuring families can access affordable, high-quality care that allows parents to work and children to thrive.
Housing affordability continues to challenge working families across the county. Through impact investing, policy engagement, nonprofit training, and strategic partnerships, we supported the preservation and creation of affordable housing and strengthened homelessness prevention efforts. Stable housing is not only foundational to economic mobility — it is central to dignity, security, and community wellbeing.
As your community foundation, we actively connect donors, nonprofits, businesses, government, and residents to take on the challenges that affect us all. We know that together we can do more.
Our donors stepped forward in extraordinary ways. In 2025, donor-advised fundholders granted a record 40% of the charitable dollars held in their accounts — double that of the year before.
Responding to critical needs requires compassion, collaboration, and resolve. While challenges remain, we are confident in our community’s shared capacity to meet this moment — and to build a thriving community for all.
We are grateful for your partnership.
With appreciation,
Angel Iscovich, MD Chair, Board of Trustees
Jackie Carrera President & CEO
Strategic Grantmaking
The Santa Barbara Foundation, together with our donors, awarded $72.8 million in 3,050 total grants in 2025, and mobilized resources including impact investment loans, to meet critical community needs.
$7,770,391 Foundation-Directed Investments
$65,127,653 Donor-Advised Investments
Foundation-Directed Investments (Discretionary)
Santa Barbara Foundation practices trust-based philanthropy, partnering with local nonprofits to strengthen the communities we serve. Our grantmaking is guided by research, staff expertise, and the insights of advisory committees, subject-matter experts, and community members. By combining data, lived experience, and strong relationships with nonprofit partners, we invest in solutions that respond to community needs and advance lasting impact across Santa Barbara County.
$768,090 Arts, Culture & Humanities
$1,460,719 Behavioral Health & Health Care
$984,269 Child Care
$401,000 Disaster Relief
$1,606,445 Education & Youth Development
$772,439 Environment & Animals
$350,638 Food Systems
$408,312 Housing & Shelter
$221,695 Human Services
$79,500 Other
$435,931 Public & Societal Benefit
$281,353 Workforce Development
$7.8M TOTAL
Donor-Advised Investments (Non-Discretionary)
Through donor-directed grantmaking, Santa Barbara Foundation helps individuals and families support the causes they care about most, locally and around the world. Our Donor Services team partners with donors and professional advisors to guide philanthropic planning, provide strong investment stewardship, and maximize the impact of charitable giving. Beyond financial services, the Foundation offers deep community knowledge and expertise, helping donors identify opportunities where their philanthropy can make the greatest difference.
$3,687,085 Arts, Culture & Humanities
$4,617,857 Behavioral Health & Health Care
$1,000 Child Care
$321,529 Disaster Relief
$15,453,008 Education & Youth Development
$24,658,522 Environment & Animals
$3,539,500 Food Systems
$842,593 Housing & Shelter
$4,064,990 Human Services
$3,719,409 Other
$4,218,040 Public & Societal Benefit
$4,120 Workforce Development
Critical Needs Response Fund: Rising to the Occasion Community Impact
Unprecedented federal policy shifts in 2025 tested the resilience of local civic and nonprofit organizations across sectors and disproportionately impacted immigrant communities. Federal budget cuts and the government shutdown eliminated funds, froze grant cycles, and delayed funding for local nonprofits even as demand for direct services increased significantly. The Santa Barbara Foundation estimates that Santa Barbara County was projected to lose approximately $550 million in federal funding in 2025, including at least $30 million in direct funding reductions to local nonprofit organizations.
In September 2025, the Foundation launched the Critical Needs Response Fund to provide rapid, flexible support in response to these disruptions. Supported by SBF and generous donations from family fundholders, private
foundations, and local corporations — including Montecito Bank & Trust, the Patricia Bragg Foundation, and others — the fund provides flexible grants of up to $50,000 to nonprofits delivering essential services such as food, housing assistance, healthcare, and immigration-related support. As of December 2025, the Foundation awarded 18 grants totaling $470,000
Community organizations used these grants to respond quickly to emerging needs, including to:
• Increase nutritious food supplies for families in need
• Expand free legal aid for immigrant families
• Support increased demand for behavioral health and healthcare supports
Veggie Rescue collects surplus produce from over 55 farms and delivers it free of charge to more than 65 nonprofit partners across Santa Barbara County. Demand for Veggie Rescue’s donated produce spiked sharply as partner agencies lost federal support. By December 2025, the organization had rescued 750,000 pounds of produce and other food, surpassing the previous year’s total by 18%, while transportation, staffing, and supply costs continued to rise.
Flexible funding from our Critical Needs Response Fund helped Veggie Rescue expand staff, cover fuel and vehicle costs, and grow its gleaning program to keep pace with rising community demand.
A record amount of produce was rescued by Veggie Rescue in 2025 to meet a spike in demand from nonprofit partners. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Carpinteria Children’s Project (CCP), which operates early childhood education and a family resource center, expanded its services in response to the effects of increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Carpinteria. Staff and volunteers mobilized a network of promotores (community health workers) who supported local families through rapid response training, rights education, and access to essential resources, including home delivery of food and household necessities.
The volunteer support and funding we continue to receive are making a difference. Everyone deserves to feel safe and have their basic needs met.
— Teresa Alvarez, Executive Director Carpinteria Children’s Project
A Carpinteria Children’s Project staff member and promotora prepares groceries for an at-home delivery of food and essentials to a local family. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Families turn to Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County to navigate essential services such as healthcare, food, and shelter.
(Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Community Impact
Child Care: Building Opportunity
In 2025, the Santa Barbara Foundation advanced a data-driven, countywide strategy to strengthen Santa Barbara County’s child care system through targeted grantmaking, workforce development, and systems-level infrastructure investments. Families continue to face significant affordability and access challenges, with child care expenses taking an average of 28% of a family’s monthly budget, according to The Self-Sufficiency Standard for California 2024.
Building on the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Child Care Recovery Stabilization Initiative funded by a federal grant from 20232025, the Foundation expanded its impact by strengthening provider networks, investing in sustainable workforce pipelines, and advancing countywide planning tools. ARPA investments resulted in 1,599 new infant and toddler spaces, the licensing of 98 new home-based family child care providers, and professional development support for 240 early childhood educators.
A major milestone was the development of the Santa Barbara County Child Care Facilities Master Plan and Toolkit, the county’s first comprehensive roadmap for facilities development and long-term infrastructure planning. The toolkit provides local governments, developers, and community organizations with a shared blueprint to expand child care facilities and increase long-term access across the county.
Beatriz García, Santa Barbara Foundation’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, remembers how hard her parents worked to support their family. Her mother spent long days in agricultural packing houses sorting and boxing fresh produce, while her father worked 12-hour shifts six days a week.
One day that routine changed. During a church service, parents were invited to learn how to open a licensed child care program from their homes. Curious and determined, Beatriz’s mother signed up. Soon, their home was transformed into a daycare, with letters decorating the wall of the family room and a modified yard for children to ride small bikes. What began as a simple opportunity grew into a family business and a pathway to economic stability.
“This created the opportunity for my family to move into the middle class, and opened new opportunities for my whole family,” García said.
Stories like the García family’s show why Santa Barbara Foundation continues to invest in child care. Accessible, home-based programs can support working parents, strengthen families, and expand economic opportunity, especially for immigrant women.
Children’s Resource and Referral of Santa Barbara County’s WINGS preschool in Santa Maria reflects ongoing investments to strengthen early childhood education and expand access to child care countywide. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Building on the success of these investments, the Foundation, in partnership with Children’s Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County, is now helping scale this work across the Central Coast. Through support from the Uplift Central Coast initiative, the Foundation is advancing a regional model to increase licensed child care spaces in Santa Barbara County while sharing the tools, strategies, and lessons learned with three additional Central Coast counties.
The Foundation also expanded its leadership role by becoming a founding member of the Uplift Regionwide Child Care Coalition, a collaboration of partners from six counties — from Santa Cruz to Ventura — in a first-of-itskind regional collaboration to strengthen the child care system and expand opportunity for working families across the Central Coast.
The Child Care Facilities Master Plan documents a county that moved decisively when it mattered. More than 2,000 licensed child care spaces were added in just five years,
despite rising construction costs, workforce shortages, and regulatory complexity. That is structural change.
— Jacqui Banta, MA, Chief Operating Officer Children’s Resource and Referral of Santa Barbara County
Learn more by scanning the QR code for child care facilities resources.
CommUnify provides Head Start preschool programs across the county that are responsive to each child’s linguistic, ethnic, and cultural heritage. (Photo: Joshua Molina)
Housing: Policy, Homelessness Prevention, Investing Community Impact
Housing affordability remains one of the most pressing challenges facing Santa Barbara County. The county has the fifth-highest housing costs in California, placing significant strain on local families and the workforce. In response, the Santa Barbara Foundation advanced a coordinated strategy that brings together policy leadership, nonprofit partnerships, and impact investments to expand housing stability and opportunity.
The Home Team was launched after the Foundation’s 2023 Housing Affordability Report identified the lack of a coordinated, countywide effort to champion local housing solutions. The new advocacy organization, under the fiscal sponsorship of SBF, hired its founding director, Maricela Morales, in 2025 to build public support and drive policy changes.
The Santa Barbara Foundation also partnered with the County of Santa Barbara to co-host a three-day Housing Loss Prevention Training series in Goleta, Santa Maria, and Solvang. The series reached more than 115 participants from over 40 organizations, including homelessness service providers, local food banks, schools, mental health providers, and youth-serving organizations. Housing loss prevention focuses on identifying and supporting households at risk of losing their homes before they enter homelessness, for example, helping families cover an unexpected medical expense that might otherwise lead to missed rent payments.
Through the Funders’ Collaborative for Housing Affordability — a pooled philanthropic and institutional funding partnership — we expanded housing solutions across the county. In collaboration with 11 generous donor-funders participating in the Funders’ Collaborative, the Foundation provided a $1.5 million below-market loan that helped jumpstart the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara’s purchase and conversion of 34 motel rooms into permanent supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. Foundation fundholders were paid back in October 2025, five months in advance of the original two-year loan term.
To further increase the supply of affordable housing, the Foundation approved a $2.5 million predevelopment loan to People’s Self-Help Housing to support three projects across Santa Barbara County serving older adults and lower-income families: Heritage View Senior (40 units) and Heritage View Family (79 units) in Santa Maria, and a 298-unit development near Goleta.
Together, these initiatives address the full housing continuum, from preventing housing loss to expanding permanent affordable housing. By combining advocacy, partnerships, and impact investing, the Santa Barbara Foundation accelerates solutions that make housing stability possible for more families and individuals across the county.
The Foundation provided a $1.5 million below-market loan that helped the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara purchase and convert 34 motel rooms into permanent supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
From left: Chair of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners Lisa Carlos, City of Santa Barbara Deputy City Administrator Anthony Valdez, Housing Authority Commissioner Patricia Wheatley, SBF Vice President of Philanthropic Services Tammy Sims Johnson, SBF President and CEO Jackie Carrera, Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer Rob Fredericks, Mayor of the City of Santa Barbara Randy Rowse, State Assemblymember Gregg Hart, Santa Barbara City Councilmember Eric Friedman, Banc of California Portfolio/Relationship Manager Gary Hopkins, Deputy District Director for California Senate President pro Tempore Monique Limón, Benjamin Peterson, and Housing Authority Commissioner Joey Samora.
Impact Investments: Advancing Community Solutions
The Foundation’s Impact Investing Program complements traditional grantmaking by providing loans for projects that strengthen communities. As loans are repaid, the funds can be reinvested in new initiatives, allowing the same capital to generate impact multiple times. These investments help accelerate projects already underway in the community, supporting local efforts to expand housing stability, economic opportunity, and community development.
In 2025, Santa Barbara Foundation provided a $100,000 working capital loan to Blue Sky Center to support community development in the Cuyama Valley. Blue Sky Center is a place-based organization building models for resilient, thriving, and inclusive rural economies through creative partnerships, entrepreneurship, and workforce development.
Another impact investment in Santa Maria will support youth leaving foster care. The Foundation’s $599,000 bridge loan to Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley helped acquire an office building that will be transformed into a resource center for transition-age youth leaving foster care. The safe and welcoming space will provide young adults with access to services that support their transition to independent living, including help securing permanent housing and other essential resources. Renovations have been completed, with an expected move-in date in 2026.
Blue Sky Center’s hospitality initiative, Explore Cuyama, invites visitors to the high desert to experience the region and support local economic activity through overnight stays. (Photo: Santa Barbara Foundation)
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley’s (FBSMV) new resource center in Santa Maria will support transition-age youth leaving foster care. (Photo: FBSMV)
Community Impact
Across Santa Barbara County, nonprofits are navigating rising demand for services alongside growing financial uncertainty. Through strategic grantmaking, partnerships, and leadership initiatives, the Santa Barbara Foundation works with community partners to strengthen the systems that support health, safety, and opportunity for all residents.
Santa Barbara County Community Wellness Dashboard
In partnership with over 70 organizations, and facilitated by LegacyWorks Group, the Foundation supported the launch of the Santa Barbara County Community Wellbeing Dashboard, a new community-led, online platform providing a comprehensive view of key indicators that shape wellbeing across the county.
The Dashboard tracks essential metrics to equip residents, policymakers, nonprofit organizations, and funders with accessible, timely data to understand community progress, identify challenges, and make informed decisions. Housing and economic security are the first two completed focus areas of the dashboard. Upcoming focus areas include health care and behavioral health, food security, education, peace and justice, sustainable ecosystems, and community connectedness.
SBCommunityDashboard.com
Behavioral Health & Health Care
Access to health care and behavioral health services remains a challenge for many Santa Barbara County residents. Rising demand, high caseloads, and workforce shortages — compounded by federal funding and policy shifts — continue to create barriers to care. As part of our longstanding commitment to strengthening the region’s health care and behavioral health systems, the Santa Barbara Foundation awarded $690,000 to 30 organizations in 2025.
The Foundation also facilitated grantmaking for the Youth Mental Health Recruit, Retain, Rest & Recuperation (4R) Fund, which addresses staffing challenges faced by organizations serving children, youth, families, and caregivers. In 2025, the 4R Fund awarded $171,200 to 18 nonprofit partners across the county.
Established to address student mental health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Youth Mental Health Grant Program awarded two grants totaling $65,000 to organizations that strengthen students’ social-emotional well-being and support healthier learning environments.
American Indian Health & Services provides medical, dental, pediatric, and behavioral health services to the community. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Collaboration for Social Impact
The Collaboration for Social Impact (CSI) strengthens local nonprofits by supporting leadership development and organizational effectiveness. In 2025, CSI awarded $544,000 in grants to 100 nonprofits and provided professional development opportunities for 354 leaders from 242 nonprofit organizations.
The Diversifying Revenue and Strengthening Your Fundraising Efforts workshop was one of the most productive and insightful workshops I’ve ever attended. I’ve already started implementing strategies I learned and have shared key takeaways with our development team.
— Melissa Ha-Navarro, Donor Relations Manager Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Geof and Laura Wyatt supported a capacity-building training focused on developing more meaningful relationships with key individual donors.
From left: SBF Senior Director of Donor Relations Jessica Sanchez, Spenser Wyatt, Geof Wyatt, and Laura Wyatt. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Lindsey Carnett, CEO of Marketing Maven, led a training for nonprofits on storytelling and engaging with the press. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Community Health Workers/ Promotores Workforce
The Community Health Workers/Promotores (CHW/P) workforce — bilingual, bicultural trusted leaders who help neighbors navigate health care, social services, and essential resources — continues to grow across Santa Barbara County. Through the Central Coast Tri-County CHW/P Capacity Building Collaborative, the Santa Barbara Foundation and regional partners are strengthening this workforce and building a more coordinated system that improves access to care and supports community health.
Our effort gained national recognition in 2025 when the Collaborative received an Honorable Mention in the Supporting the Safety Net Award from the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP), following a nomination from CenCal Health, the Medi-Cal health plan serving Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
The Santa Barbara Foundation also secured grant funding and mobilized resources that sustain and expand this specialized community-based work. Through these investments, we support outreach and enrollment assistance, other safety-net services, and community-based disaster preparedness efforts that help neighbors who face barriers prepare for emergencies and connect to critical information and resources.
As policies affecting immigrant communities continue to evolve, many families are navigating increased uncertainty when engaging with public systems. In response, CHWPs have expanded their role as trusted navigators and community advocates — helping residents access benefits and health coverage, providing mental health first aid, supporting legal navigation and know-yourrights education, and connecting families to food, housing, and other essential services. Their leadership ensures that trusted community voices remain at the center of efforts to build healthier, more resilient communities across Santa Barbara County.
CHWP partners, including Safe Passage Youth Foundation, support the community in a variety of ways, such as food pantry events. (Photo:
©Isaac Hernández de Lipa)
Members of the CHWP Collaborative, Health Linkages and Promotores Collaborative of SLO County, a program of Center for Family Strengthening, attended a training with the statewide initiative Listos California, which helps all Californians prepare for natural disasters.
(Photo: Santa Barbara Foundation)
Conservation, Environment & Public Trails
Recent federal policy and funding changes have weakened environmental protections across Santa Barbara County even as environmental pressures, including climate change, wildfires, drought, and sea-level rise, continue to intensify. Through strategic grantmaking, the Santa Barbara Foundation supported nonprofit partners working to protect natural resources and create public access to natural spaces, maintain public trails, and strengthen environmental resilience across the Central Coast.
In 2025, the Foundation awarded 26 grants totaling $564,000 to help safeguard the Central Coast’s unique ecosystems and outdoor spaces.
Food and Shelter & Safety
Organizations addressing basic needs faced delayed reimbursements, frozen grant cycles, and uncertain federal funding. These disruptions strained already stretched systems that support vulnerable residents across Santa Barbara County. Despite these challenges, local nonprofits adapted quickly, leveraging collaboration and innovation to sustain essential safety-net services. In addition to Critical Needs Response Fund grants addressing food and housing insecurity, the Santa Barbara Foundation continued multiyear grantmaking to strengthen basic needs services, awarding $227,500 in Food grants to 10 nonprofits and $340,000 in Shelter & Safety grants to 15 organizations.
Volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper help protect the Santa Barbara Channel, local watersheds, and beaches through cleanup and stewardship efforts. (Photo: Santa Barbara Channelkeeper)
The Nature Conservancy collaborated with art students from Allan Hancock College to design educational trail signs in English and Spanish for visitors to Jalama Beach County Park. (Photo: Santa Barbara Foundation)
Our Collective Impact
2025 Santa Barbara Foundation Grants Awarded to Nonprofits
Critical Needs Response Fund
California Rural Legal Assistance
Carpinteria Children’s Project
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families
Community Environmental Council
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley
Freedom 4 Youth
Good Samaritan Shelter
Health Linkages
Hospice of Santa Barbara
LEAP: Learn · Engage · Advocate · Partner
Organic Soup Kitchen
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Route One Farmers Market
SB ACT
Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara
Santa Ynez Valley Fruit & Vegetable Rescue
Standing Together to End Sexual Assault (STESA)
Behavioral Health & Health Care
American Indian Health & Services
CALM
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families
Center for Successful Aging
CommUnify
Community Health Centers of the Central Coast Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse
Doctors Without Walls - Santa Barbara
Street Medicine
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County
Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley
Friendship Center Adult Day Care Center
Gateway Educational Services
Hillside
Hospice of Santa Barbara
Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County
Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)
OpenMinds Foundation
PeerBuddies
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
Sarah House Santa Barbara
Savie Health
Showers of Blessing Santa Barbara
Standing Together to End Sexual Assault (STESA)
Pacific Pride Foundation
Transitions–Mental Health Association
University of California, Santa Barbara
VNA Health Foundation
YouthWell
Food
Bethania Evangelical Lutheran Church
Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center
Feed the Valley
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Organic Soup Kitchen
Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels
Santa Ynez Valley Fruit & Vegetable Rescue
Santa Ynez Valley Senior Citizens Foundation
United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County
Unity Shoppe
Shelter & Safety
2nd Story Associates
Channel Islands YMCA
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County
DignityMoves
Good Samaritan Shelter
Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County
Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County
New Beginnings Counseling Center
Partners in Housing Solutions
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission
SB ACT
St. Vincent’s
Salvation Army Southern California
Transition House
Villa Majella of Santa Barbara
Nonprofit Excellence and Capacity
Building Grants
805 UndocuFund
AHA! Attitude. Harmony. Achievement.
Alano Club of Santa Barbara
Allan Hancock College Auxiliary Programs
American Indian Health & Services
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara
Apples to Zucchini Cooking School
Artspace
Association of Fundraising Professionals
Atterdag at Home
Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara
Buen Vecino
C.A.R.E.4Paws
C4 Lompoc – Collective Cultures Creating Change
California Green Business Network
California Lutheran University
CALM
Carpinteria Arts Center
Carpinteria Children’s Project
Carpinteria Education Foundation
Casa Serena
Central Coast Junior Golf
Children’s Creative Project
CommUnify
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara (CAMA)
Community Environmental Council
Community Partners in Caring
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County
Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara
Environmental Defense Center
FIST and STAR Generation
The Foundation Roundtable Fund
Fund for Santa Barbara
Garden Court
Gateway Educational Services
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
Heal the Ocean
Health Linkages
Hillside
Hospice of Santa Barbara
Leading From Within
League of Women Voters North Santa Barbara County
Legacy Philanthropy Works
Life Steps Foundation
Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization
Mental Health Association of Santa Barbara County
Mesa Harmony Garden
Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing
Project (MICOP)
Mothers’ Helpers
MOVE Santa Barbara County
MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation
Natural History Museum of Santa Maria
New Beginnings Counseling Center
Northern Santa Barbara County United Way
Olive Crest
One Community Action
The OpenMinds Foundation
Organic Soup Kitchen
Out of the Box Theatre Company
Partners in Housing Solutions
Partnership for Excellence Conference
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Quail Springs
REACH
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Route One Farmers Market
Runners for Public Lands
Santa Barbara Birth Center
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Santa Barbara County Action Network
Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation
Santa Barbara County Food Action Network
Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center
Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue
Santa Barbara County Trails Council
Santa Barbara Humane
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara New House
Santa Barbara Opera Association
Santa Barbara Partners in Education
Santa Barbara Police Activities League
Santa Barbara Student Housing
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association
Santa Barbara Teen Legal Clinic
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
Santa Ynez Valley Fruit & Vegetable Rescue
Santa Ynez Valley Senior Advisory Council
Sarah House Santa Barbara
SB ACT
SLO Noor Foundation
Summer Solstice Celebration
Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation
Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara
Transitions – Mental Health Association
The Turner Foundation
UC Santa Barbara Foundation
Unite to Light
Unity Shoppe
Villa Majella of Santa Barbara
Wilderness Youth Project
Women’s Economic Ventures
Workforce Development
Santa Barbara City College Foundation
Santa Barbara County Education Office –Career Technical Education
William and Lottie Daniel Fund for Child Care Scholarships
Allan Hancock College Foundation
Carpinteria Children’s Project
Channel Islands YMCA
Children’s Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County
Cliff Drive Care Center
Girls Inc. of Carpinteria
Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara
Hope Community Church
LEAP: Learn · Engage · Advocate · Partner
Santa Maria Valley YMCA
South Coast Montessori
St. Vincent’s
Storyteller
Transition House
University of California, Santa Barbara
Child Care
Bethania Evangelical Lutheran Church
Carpinteria Children’s Project
Channel Islands YMCA
CommUnify
First Presbyterian Church
Goleta Education Foundation
LEAP: Learn · Engage · Advocate · Partner
Little Angels Preschool
San Marcos Parent-Child Workshop
Santa Barbara County Education OfficeEarly Care and Education Services/Child Care Planning Council
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation
Santa Maria Valley YMCA
St. Mark Preschool
St. Vincent’s
Storyteller
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conservation, Environment & Public Trails
Boy Scouts of America
Channel Islands Park Foundation
Channel Islands Restoration
Coastal Ranches Conservancy
Ellwood Friends
Environmental Defense Center
Explore Ecology
Fish Reef Project
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County
Lompoc Valley Parks, Recreation & Pool Foundation
Los Padres Forest Association
Los Padres ForestWatch
Montecito Trails Foundation
Runners for Public Lands
Sage Trail Alliance
Santa Barbara Audubon Society
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Santa Barbara Zoological Foundation
Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden Foundation
Surfrider Foundation
Quail Springs
United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County
University of California, Santa Barbara
Westmont College
Your Children’s Trees
Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts
A Compas
Adelfos Ensemble
Allan Hancock College Auxiliary Programs
American Dance and Music
Amplify Arts Project
Arts Mentorship Program
Artspace
Be Momentum
Boxtales Theatre Company
Camerata Pacifica
Carpinteria Arts Center
Cesar Estrada Chavez Dual Language
Immersion Charter School
Children’s Creative Project
Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara
Creative Netwerk
Cultural and Creative Arts Center of the Santa Maria Valley
Elings Park Foundation
Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara
Goleta Education Foundation
Grace Fisher Foundation
House of Pride and Equality
La Boheme Dance
Lights Up!
Lobero Theatre Foundation
Lompoc California Community Concert Association
Lompoc Theatre Project
Masq(p)arade!
Move with a Purpose
Muffin Music
Music Academy of the West
Nomad Tango
Notes for Notes
Out of the Box Theatre Company
Parks and Recreation Community Foundation
Roll-N-Rock 805
Royals Theatre Production Fund
San Marcos High School Royal Band Boosters
Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative
Santa Barbara Black Culture House
Santa Barbara Blues Society
Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts
Santa Barbara Chamber Players
Santa Barbara Choral Society
Santa Barbara City College Foundation
Santa Barbara Community Youth Performing Arts Center
Santa Barbara Dance Institute
Santa Barbara Education Foundation
Santa Barbara Festival Ballet
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Santa Barbara Master Chorale
Santa Barbara Opera Association
Santa Barbara Strings
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association
Santa Maria Philharmonic Society
Santa Ynez Valley Chorale
Santa Ynez Valley Wind Ensemble
SB Acoustic
Solvang Heritage Associates
Solvang School Education Foundation
South Coast Youth Band
Spotlight Kid’s Camps
State Street Ballet
Summer Solstice Celebration
Teen Arts America
Transform Through Arts
The Turner Foundation
University of California, Santa Barbara
Westmont College
Youth ARTS Alive
Youthclusive
Tri-Counties Blood Bank
AABB Foundation
Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation
Pacific Pride Foundation
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
Youth Mental Health Providers Recruit, Retain, Rest & Recuperation
AHA! Attitude. Harmony. Achievement.
American Indian Health & Services
CALM
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families
Casa Serena
CommUnify
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County
Freedom 4 Youth
Girls Inc. of Carpinteria
Goleta Education Foundation
Hospice of Santa Barbara
Mental Health Association of Santa Barbara County
Mosaic Therapy Collective
OpenMinds Foundation
PeerBuddies
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Standing Together to End Sexual Assault (STESA)
The Turner Foundation
Youth Mental Health
Freedom 4 Youth
OpenMinds Foundation
Trusted Messenger Grant Health Linkages
Community Disaster Relief
California Community Foundation
California Fire Foundation
Community Environmental Council
Health Equity - Community Health Workers / Promotores
Center for Family Strengthening
Corazon Latino
Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County
Health Linkages
Lompoc Valley Community Healthcare Organization
Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP)
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Safe Passage for Youth Foundation
Sansum Diabetes Research Institute
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
Shelter Care Resources
Additional Grant Recipients
County of Santa Barbara Public Health Department
Future Leaders of America
San Marcos High School Royal Pride Foundation
Santa Ynez Valley Community Aquatics Foundation
Our Collective Impact
2025 Santa Barbara Foundation Donors and Funds
Thank you to our donors who believe in the power of collective philanthropy and have invested in the well-being of our region through Santa Barbara Foundation funds. These contributions allow us to work alongside partners to advance solutions to Santa Barbara County’s most complex challenges and respond to critical community needs.
Supporters of the Community Engagement Fund
The Community Engagement Fund addresses the greatest needs across our communities by strengthening nonprofit organizations through grants and resources. President’s Circle members (in blue) contribute $10,000 or more annually, providing catalytic support that enables the Foundation to lead strategic initiatives, convene partners, and advance long-term solutions across the region. Individuals who contribute $1,000 or more annually are recognized as Community Champions (in bold), helping advance innovation, collaboration, research, and community solutions.
* Deceased
$100,000+
California Community Foundation
Cavalletto Charities
Economic Development Collaborative
Eric and Kelly Schwartz Charitable Trust
Gould Trust
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
John Rindlaub Separate Property Trust
John Lewis and Carrie Towbes
La Centra-Sumerlin Fund
Montecito Bank & Trust
Patricia Bragg Foundation
Pioneer Ventures
Eric and Kelly Schwartz
United States Treasury
$25,000-$99,999
California Healthcare Foundation
CenCal Health
City of Goleta
Daniel A. & Edna J. Sattler Beneficial Trust
Deckers Outdoor Corporation
Lindsey Duca
Pierce Dunn and Lee Hoyt
Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation
Vera Hargrove*
James S. Bower Foundation
Christian Kraus
League of California Community Foundations
McCune Foundation
State of California
Towbes Foundation
The Victor and Susan Schaff Family Foundation
Volentine Family Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
George and Deborah Adam
Alexandra and Paul Allen
Anonymous (3)
Timothy and Hollister Armour
AugustOne Foundation
Susan and Claude* Case
Louise and Timothy Casey
Ron and Beth Cooper
Peter Hilf
Ken and Francie Jewesson
May Judd*
Terry Kleid
John and Janet Kruger
The Lehrer Family Charitable Fund
Daniel and Pamela Macal
The Murphy Foundation
Ellen and Tom Orlando
Michael and Aleisa Pfau
Heather Stevenson
$5,000-$9,999
Anonymous
Jim and Denise Bray
William Burke and Nancy Bell Coe
Linda Burrows
Marni and Michael Cooney
Thomas and Sheila Cullen
Pamela Gann and David Hardee
Jonathan and Kristina Grunzweig
Stephen and Dee Jones
Kleid Family Charitable Fund
John and Arlene Larson
Adam Liff
Julia McLanahan
Hank and Mari Mitchel
Bob and Lynn Nakasone
Jill Nida and Gary Simpson
Pacific Coast Energy Company
Albert Reid
The Richard Baum and Melanie Lansing Trust
Russell and Sharon Rumberger
Sandy Schoolfield and Jon Kechejian
Tracy and Bruce Stouffer
Grace Thomas
Wendy Vos
Dana White
William A. Baker Living Trust
David and Carolyn Zimmerman
Zohar Ziv
$1,000-$4,999
Diane and Kieran Adam
Peter and Becky Adams
Cindy and Phillip Alvarado
David and Lyn Anderson
Ann Jackson Family Foundation
Anonymous
Jonah Bagley
Gunther and Mary Jane Baumgartner
Donald and Susan Bennett
Shirley Boydstun
Camino Natural Resources
John Carbon and Louise Clarke
David and Jackie Carrera
Robin Cederlof
Alexander and Cindy Chambers
Barbara and Bill Cirone
Charles Corson
Cuadrilla Capital
Randall Day and Bill Hurbaugh
Barbara Delaune-Warren
Mil and Bill Duncan
Katherine and Thomas Dunlap
Ken Falstrom
Brad Fiedel and Ann Dusenberry
Jim Francis
Nori Francis
Kerin Friden
Judy Frost
Mark and Stephanie Fugate
Geoff and Roxanne Gaggs
George Isaac Foundation
Rafael and Julie Gonzalez
Gary and Susan Gulbransen
Jane and Norm Habermann
Peter and Christine Hagan
Randal and Tracy Hernandez
Patsy and Steve* Hicks
Kieran Higgins
Christine Vanderbilt Holland
Harry B. Ireland*
Angel and Lisa Iscovich
Kiah and Anna Jordan
Phil Kirshman
Cindy Lyons
Steve Lyons
Pam Maines
Judd Malkin
The Malkin Family
Manchester Capital Management
Robert and Elizabeth Manger
Lucille Mayer
Sara Miller McCune
Danna McGrew and John Britton
Robert McNall
Lois Mitchell
Janet and Paul Mocker
Jeff Moody
Morgan Stanley Gift Fund
Mary and James Morouse
Sarah and Ryan Muzzy
Mary Nanning
National Philanthropic Trust
Gary and Anna Nett
NS Ceramic
Jerry Olivera
Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey Oshay
The Oshay Family Foundation
Ernesto Paredes
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation
Peter & Rebecca Adams Trust
Reicker, Pfau, Pyle & McRoy
Robert and Ruth Reingold
Robin Riblet
Susan and Tom* Richards
Anthony and Kyra Rogers
Shirley Ronkowski
Natalie and Matt Rowe
Richard and Rosemary Sanders
Lynn Sarko and Laurie Ashton
Chris and Hal Saunders
Ken and Jo Saxon
Christiane Schlumberger and Tony Allina
Peter Schuyler and Lisa Stratton
James Selbert
Missy and Chuck Sheldon
Eileen Sheridan and Roger Wilde
James and Marian Slater
Trudy Smith
Marc Soares
Nancy Stewart
Jason Stilwell
Carl and Nola Stucky
T26 Productions
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
We are proud to invest in postsecondary education for young scholars by contributing $1,223,423 to the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara in 2025. Of the 311 scholarships awarded, 79% of funding went to North County students and 21% to South County students. (Photo: Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara-Brad Elliott)
Juneteenth
We were proud to sponsor and celebrate Juneteenth in Lompoc “Reclaiming the Past. Remembering Black Voices.” From left: Santa Maria-Lompoc NAACP President Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt, SBF Vice President of Philanthropic Services Tammy Sims Johnson, SBF President and CEO Jackie Carrera. (Photo: Santa Barbara Foundation)
SANTA BARBARA
Patricia Tisch
Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation
Robert Torian and Carol Sawyer
Anne Towbes
Robert Wakefield
Nicholas and Patricia Weber
Tracey Willfong
Lacey and John Williams
Laura and Geofrey Wyatt
Donald and Eleanor Ziehl
$1-$999
Ronald Abeles
Brett Alldredge
Barbara Almeida
Antonio Alvarez
Jill and Corey Anderson
Anonymous
Anne Ashmore
Lee Asseo
Leslie Austere
MJ Bakove
Aaron Ball
Robert and Esther Baum
Ken Beisser
Roslyn Bendet
Carla Berkowitz
Burt and Judith Bernstein
Larry and Jamie Bickford
Toni Bixby
Diana and Ray Boltz
Renee and Jean-Luc Bourdon
Mr. Ebenezer Bowditch
Susan Bowey
Ken and Sandra Boyd
Maggie and Gary Bradley
Sheila Brennan
Shari Brooks
Michael Brown
Roger and Sandra Bunch
Susan Burns
Stanley Bursten
Linda Butterwick
Nigel Buxton
California Resources Corporation
Kristin Callahan
Francisco and Rosie Calvillo
John Canfield
Betsy Carlson
Bob and Judith Carpenter
Pamela and David Caswell
Maria Caudillo
CFLeads
Barbara Clark
Clear Group
Mr. Benjamin Cohen
Martin and Becky Cohn
Ms. Hillary Conant
Carmen Craviotto*
Jim Craviotto
Craviotto Brothers Enterprises
George and Nancy Curry
Joan Davidson
Andrew and Adrianne Davis
The Davis 1992 Family Trust
Max & Clara Legacy Society
Members of the Max & Clara Legacy Society, including Susan Gulbransen and Steve Lyons, attended the annual luncheon at the Montecito Club. (Photo: ©Isaac Hernández de Lipa)
Russell Denea and Louise Harris
Jeffrey Denham
Devon Energy Production Company
Ann and David* Dwelley
Karen Edwards
Amr El Abbadi and Janet Head
Katharine Evans
Lendon and Marlou Everson
James Fischer
Jennifer Fleming
Regina Fletcher
Joannette and Donald Fong
Valerie Freeman
Monica and Jeffrey Fried
FTC v. First American Payment Systems
Dennis and Setsuko Furuike
Tish Gainey
Paul Gawronik
Mr. Brian Gee
Elizabeth and John Gerig
David Gersh
Lois Gigstead
Valerie Girard
Give Lively
Mitch Glanz and Gayle Abramson
Annette Goena
Kenneth Gould
Rob Graham
Randall Greer and Jana Waring Greer
Scot Grierson
Mike and Betz Hadley
Mr. Christian Hahn
Suzanne and Frank Hajnik
Peggy Hamilton
Ronald Harris
Harold Hill
Ms. Karen Hodges
Jody Holehouse
William Holland
Frank and Daniele Huerta
Craig Huseth
Donald Janelle
Dow Jarvis
Thery Jenkins
Jessica Jobaris
Sandra and Gary Johnson
Edwin and Jeanne Johnston
Colin and Joan Jones
David Jones
Donna Jones
Mr. John Kammeyer
Mr. Chris Kaveh
Grace Kazali
Thomas Keating
Patricia Keelean
Richard and Susan Kelty
John Kennedy
Jon King
Laurie King
Nancy and Jeffrey Kupperman
Stan Laband
Alexander Lambrous
David Landecker
Christina Landy
Mary Leach
Sarah Leck
The Leck Sisterhood Fund
Edwin and Marcia Lenvik
Barbara Levi
Phillip Levy
Lori Lewis
Andrea and Fritz Light
Elizabeth Linn
Joyce Ellen Lippman
Nancy Lonshein
Trish Lunetta
Bruce Luyendyk
Karen Lynn-Lieb
Douglas MacGillvray
Anthony Maggio
Cynthia Manzer
Marathon Oil
Linda F. Marsh
Diane and James Martin
Lucy Martin
Vinnie Martinez
Mitchell Maskrey
Joe and Amy Mathews
McAvoy + Co, CPA
Emmett McDonough
Shaelyn McHugh
Bob and Lindy McLean
Meredith McMinn
Terry McQueen
Joni and Paul Meisel
David Meldrum-Taylor and Barbara Robertson
Robert Meyer
Thomas and Steffnie Molley
Robert Monk
Craig and Denise Montell
J. Roger Morrison
Laurence Murdock
Jen and Eddie Murray
Dennis and Carolyn Naiman
Tedd Neenan
Joyce Niland
Elizabeth C. Northrop
Sophie Nothnagle
Deana and Mark Okohira
Kathleen O’Leary
Noushin Oram
Beatrice Oshika
Pauline Paulin
Priscilla Peale
Steve Pepe
Jamie Perez
Lisa Perocco
Karen and Joseph Peus
Steven Phillips and Jennifer Frazer
Paulette Posch
Tim Pritchard and Katya Armistead
Barbara and James Raggio
Karen Ransome
David and Roseanne Rapoza
Santa Barbara Triathlon
SBF was the beneficiary of the 2025 Santa Barbara Triathlon and cheered on the athletes. From left: SBF Senior Marketing and Communications Manager Katherine Sanders, SBF Director of Development Susie Willett. (Photo: Santa Barbara Foundation)
Ms. Carol Reifsnyder
Renaissance Charitable Foundation
Dwight Reynolds
Ted Rhodes and Joan Pascal
Todd Riddiough
Dee Ringstead
Pamela and George Risher
John and Judy Ritchie
Thorn and Linda Robertson
Gilberto Robledo
Shirley and Kilburn Roby
Chris Roderick
Catherine and Kirk Romain
Burt Romotsky
Muriel Ross
Roger Royse
Allan Saddi
John and Cynthia Sanger
Greg Santilli
Bror Saxberg and Denise Brudevold
Faye Scheff
Mrs. C.W. Schlosser*
Pauline Schneekloth
Mr. Tony Schreiner
Duane and Sheryn Sears
Mr. Noah Ray Shah
Eryn Shugart
Anna Sitar
Colleen Sitolini
Jean Smith
Mary Solis
Tracey Solomon
Carol Stewart
Cynthia and Michael Stohl
Peter and Stacy Sullivan
Jennifer Swan
David Swanson
E. Burton Swanson
Michael and Cheryl Takahara
Patricia Tenney
Melinda Thomas
Ferris Thompson
Robin and Bruce Tiffney
Janet Tran
Karen Trapp
Brian Trautwein
Carol Tricase
John and Stacy Trimble
Deanna Vallejo
Daniel and Danielle Villalpando
Libe Washburn
Ms. Sarah Washburn
Waters Corporation
Edwin Weaver
Alex Weinstein
Donna Weinstein
Alan Weiss and Cheryl Smith
Bettie Weiss
Art Westerfield
Mark Wienke and Nancy Cohen
Ms. Jean Willett
Mrs. Irwin Winer
Bruce and Jean Wollenberg
Grayson Young
Kevin Young
Kenneth and Roberta Ziegler
Alison Zuber
Kenneth and Roberta Ziegler
Donald and Eleanor Ziehl
Agency Endowment Funds
American Malacological Society
Buellton Library Endowment
Carpinteria Rotary Charitable Foundation
Charlotte’s Web Children’s Library Endowment
CSSA Endowment Fund
Domestic Violence Solutions Fund
Faith Lutheran Church Endowment Fund
Foodbank SBC Fund
Friends of Los Baños Del Mar Pool
General Libraries Endowment
Girls Incorporated of Carpinteria Endowment Fund
Goleta Lions Charities Fund
Good Samaritan Shelter Endowment Fund
Grants Fund of the Santa Maria Arts Council
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center Endowment Fund
Ian M. Hassett Foundation
James A. Newman Scholarship Endowment
Jim Stanley Memorial Endowment
Lions Sight and Hearing Center
Lobero Theatre Endowment Fund
Lompoc Library Endowment
Meals on Wheels - Santa Maria Valley Montecito Retirement Association
Morning Rotary of Carpinteria Charitable Foundation
New Directions Endowment
Northern Santa Barbara County United Way Endowment Fund
Orcutt Children’s Arts Foundation, Inc. Endowment
Partners in Education/Computers for Families Fund
Peggy Bergmann PYFC Endowment Fund
People for Leisure and Youth Fund
Rotary Club of Santa Barbara Sunrise Charitable Foundation
San Marcos Foothills Preserve Habitat Restoration Endowment
Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade Maintenance Fund
Santa Barbara Choral Society Endowment Fund
Santa Barbara Courthouse Legacy Foundation
Santa Barbara Education Foundation Fund
Santa Barbara Humane Society Endowment Fund
Santa Barbara Meals on Wheels, Inc. Endowment Fund
Santa Barbara Vintners’ Fund
Santa Maria Boys & Girls Club Foundation Endowment Fund
Santa Maria Breakfast Rotary Foundation
Santa Maria Philharmonic Society
Santa Maria Valley YMCA Foundation Fund
Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society Endowment Fund
Smooth Inc.
SMYMCA Fund
Social Justice Fund for Ventura County Fund
Storyteller’s Managed Equity Portfolio Fund
Student Art Fund
SYVTRP Endowment
Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara
Unity of Santa Barbara Endowment Fund
Unity Shoppe Endowment Fund
Village Library Endowment
VTC Enterprises Charitable Fund
Wildling Museum Endowment
Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara Endowment Fund
Committee Advised Funds
Adam Anthony Villa Scholarship
Birnam Wood Members Veterans Scholarship Committee
California Central Coast Black Resiliency Fund
Caregivers Support Fund in Memory of Edward Joseph Rollerson
Elaine F. Stepanek Foundation
Restaurant Fund
The Giving List Fund
Jack O’Keefe Junior Golf Foundation
Orcutt Aquacenter Fund
Rafe Sagarin Fund for Innovative Ecology
Senior Programs of Santa Barbara
Donor Advised Funds
Ackerman Family Fund
Adams Family Fund
Ainsley Family Fund
Aizenstat/Hansen Family Fund
Anapamu Fund
Animal Rescue Fund of Santa Barbara
Ann C. Self Fund
The Antenore Fund
AOK Fund
Artemisia Fund
Ava G. Morouse Fund
Barbara and Ernest Marx Fund
Barbara Bradley Fund
Barbara Delaune Warren Fund
Barbara Kessel Fund
Barry and Norris Goss Fund
Bassett Charitable Gift Fund
Benham Family Fund
Betty Bennet Gordon Fund
Blythewood Family Trust Fund
Bonanza Fund
Brad N. Baker and Sharlene Shipman Baker Fund
Brasch and Nanning Family Fund
Browne Family Fund
Burnham Family Fund
Campbell Family Fund
Carlin Dunne Foundation
Carolyn and Liam Murphy Family Fund
Carolyn H. Roth Fund
Carrera Family Fund
Carter Fund
Case Family Charitable Fund
Cathy Carter Duncan Fund
Chaparral Fund
Chirman Family Fund
Cielito Fund
Clarity Ventures Charitable Fund
Cleo and Sol Hill Fund
Cody Duncan Fund
Connor O’Keefe Fund
Cox Charities Foundation
The CWP Fund
Dan and Tita McCarty Fund
De La Guerra
Deborah & Ken Pontifex Fund
Dee and Steve Jones Fund
Dellanina Family Trust Fund
Demboski & Chapman Financial and Insurance Solutions Fund
Derek Duncan Fund
Diane and Don Jackson Fund
Diane and Kieran Adam Fund
Diane Hester and Ray Hester Fund
Don and Susan Bennett Family Fund
Dr. Howard R. Bierman and Anthony (Andy) Granatelli Fund
Dr. John La Puma Eco Medicine and Nature Fund
Dr. Peter L. Morris Endowed Fund
Duca Project 44 SBF
Dunn Family Fund
Dusenberry Fiedel Family Fund
Ed Graper Fund
Education, Youth and Community Fund
Employee Charitable Giving Fund
Eryn Shugart Fund
ESPERANZA: Prof. Antonio R. & Margarita O. Molina Charitable Fund
Eternal Investments Fund
The Eusey/Deal Fund
Evenden Family Fund
The Fess Parker Family Fund
Figueroa Fund
Forrest and Priscilla Mori Fund
Fox Family Fund
Frank and Joseph Gila Fund
G3 Fund
Gainey Family Fund
Gary and Susan Miles Gulbransen Family Fund
Gertman Family Fund
Gilliriemaland Foundation
Glen Henry Mitchel
Grace Matthews Fund
Grateful Adam Fund
Gretchen and Marshall Milligan Fund
Griffin Saxon Fund
Grunzweig Family Fund
Gwen Taylor Dawson Fund
Haight Family Fund
Happy Trails Fund
Hilary Peattie Fund
The Hill Family Fund
Himovitz Family Fund
Honikman Family CP Fund
Hope Saxon Fund
Houghton and Benjamin Hyatt Family Fund
Hugh J. Ralston Charitable Fund
Ilan M. and Barbara G. Levi Fund
Jack and Gretchen Norqual Foundation
Jacqueline & Adrien Abbud
James M. & Marian F. Slater
Jannotta Family Fund
Jason & Priscilla Gaines Family Foundation
Jennifer Smith Family Foundation Fund
Jerry & Jackie Inskeep Fund
Jim & Chana Jackson Charitable Fund
The Jim Ryerson Environmental Foundation Fund
JMK Fund
Joan and Roger Craton Donor Advised Fund
Joel F. & Alice Bliss Studebaker Fund
John A. Moseley Fund
John C Morouse
Judith Stapelmann Fund
Judy & Frank Ghezzi Fund
Judy and Leon Bartholomew Family Fund
Julie and Paul Capritto Family Fund
Karuna Fund
Kathryn and Larkin McCormack Fund
Kay and Chip Marsh Fund
Keaney-Wright Fund
KEF Fund
Ken and Jo Saxon Fund
Kent and Lauren Burton, Trustees of K&L
Burton Family Trust
Kiefer-Roberts Family Fund
Kirby Foundation Fund (in Memory of Bob Kirby)
Knowles Family Fund
Kuga Family Fund
L.E.M.N.S Fund
La Centra-Sumerlin Donor Advised Fund
Len Jarrot Charitable Fund
Let There Be Light Fund
Lewis-Towbes Family Fund
The Lion and the Rose Fund
Liselotte Kuttler Charitable Fund
Loon Point Fund
Lotus Fund
LRW Black Diamond Fund
Lucent Wealth Charitable Fund
Lucille E. Mayer Fund
Luno Care Camping Fund
Lynn Gamble and Glenn Russell Family Fund
Macal Family Fund
MacMurray Family Fund
Margaret L. Rhodes Fund
Margaret Waller Fund
Marilyn A. Makepeace Fund
Marjorie Kenyon Fund
Mary G. Miranda Fund for Youth
Mary Smith Fund
Marylinn Green Family Fund
McKiernan Hicks Fund
Michael and Diane Wondolowski Fund
Michael and JoAnne Meade Young Fund
Michael and Nancy Martz Fund
Michael Towbes Fund
President’s Circle
Members of the President’s Circle were welcomed at an inaugural event held at El Encanto Hotel. From left, front: SBF Director of Development Susie Willett and Ken and Francie Jewesson. From left, back: SBF Trustee Michael Pfau, SBF President and CEO Jackie Carrera, Ellen Lehrer Orlando, and Tom Orlando. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
82nd Person of the Year
SBF President and CEO Jackie Carrera celebrated the 82nd Person of the Year honorees, George Burtness and Carrie Towbes, for their outstanding contributions to the Santa Barbara area at an awards luncheon at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort Rotunda. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Professional Advisors
We were pleased to host our Professional Advisor friends and partners at Margerum Tasting Room. From left: Guy Walker, Wealth Management Strategies, SBF Vice President of Philanthropic Services Tammy Sims Johnson, and Nicole Wichowski, Northern Trust. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Community Champions
Community Champions enjoyed a luncheon at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. From left: SBF Senior Director of Donor Relations Jessica Sanchez, Peter Schuyler, and Lisa Stratton. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Michelle Falvey Memorial Fund
Mitchel Family Fund
MKCE Sheldon Family Fund
Molly Morouse
Moody Family Fund
Morouse Family Fund
The Moseley Family Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Ziegler Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Gowing Fund
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kistler Fund
Mr. James R. Warren Fund
Mr. John DeGroot Fund
Mr. Larry Schnur Fund
Mr. Palmer G. Jackson, Jr. Fund
Mrs. Carolyn D. Thresher Fund
Mrs. Mary Louise Gee Fund
Nancy Even and Joel Ohlgren Fund
Natalie Orfalea Foundation
Nicholas and Patricia Weber Fund
Nick Johnson Memorial Athletic Fund
Nina C. Vergari Family Fund
Painted Porch Fund
Parker Matthews Fund
Patricia M. Gainey (Tish Gainey) Fund
Peter & Linda Beuret Fund
The Peter F. Hilf Fund
Peter Karoff Endowment for Poetry in Santa Barbara
Pittman and Strickfaden Family Fund
Play It Forward Fund
Polly & David Van Horne Fund
Poomer Fund for Anne Smith Towbes
Posada Family Fund
Priscilla and Daniel Ng Family Fund
The Randolph and Patricia Scott Family Fund
RB Draper Family Fund
The RBK Fund
Rieffel Charitable Fund
Rio’s Promise Fund
The Robert & Linda Badal Charitable Fund
Robert Duncan Economics/History Fund
Robert H. and Inge M. Uphoff Fund
Robin Hill Cederlof Fund
Rochelle Hadley Bruhn Memorial Scholarship Fund
Rod Lathim Charitable Fund
Roehrig Family Fund
Romo Family Fund
Rowland Family Fund
Ryan & Sarah Muzzy Family Fund
Ryan Taylor College Readiness Fund
Saggy Ave
Salazar Matthews Fund
Santa Barbara Associates Fund
Saturday Family Fund
Save Your Stuff Humanitarian Fund
Scalapino Family Fund
Schlosser Family Fund
Schoolfield/Kechejian Family Fund
Schwartz Family Fund
SFT Charitable Fund
Sheila M. Brennan Santa Barbara Fund
Sheldon Charitable Fund
Sherwin Family Fund
Silvio D. DiLoreto Fund
Skidmore Family Fund
Skinner Family Fund
Skinner Social Impact Fund
Skyler Matthews Fund
SOCKES (Student Opportunity for Catholic Knowledge and Education Scholarship) Fund
Sonos Foundation
Sorenson Family Fund
Starfish Housing Committee Fund
Stephen M. & Patricia D. Hicks Fund
Sternin Family Fund
Steve and Cindy Lyons Fund
Steve and Suzanne Weintraub Fund
Steven L. Karan Fund
Sumner Matthews Fund
Sunny Bank Charitable Trust Fund
Sycamore Fund
Ted Rhodes and Joan Pascal Fund
Terry and Sally Eagle Fund
Thomas Paine Fund
Tim and Louise Casey Family Fund
Timothy K. and Virginia A. Bliss Fund
Tisha Weber Ford Family Fund
Topworks
Towbes Foundation Fund
Treasure Hunt Fund
Tufts Family Foundation
Vermeer Fund
Vista Fund
The Wang Fund
Walker Family Fund
Walter J. and Holly O. Thomson Fund
Weller Charitable Fund
Wilde/Sheridan Fund
Willfong-Singh Family Fund
William P. Neil Fund Endowed
Wyatt Family FoundationCliff and Crystal Wyatt
Wyatt Family FoundationGeof and Laura Wyatt
Wyatt Family FoundationMonica Wyatt and Mark Horowitz
Wyatt Family Foundation - Philip Wyatt
Yzurdiaga Family Fund
Zannon Family Foundation
The Zimmer Fund
Donor Designated Funds
Alfred and Rosalind Perlman Trust Fund
Ann C. Self Endowment Fund
Breitling College Visit Scholarship Fund
C. William Schlosser Fund
Cabrillo High School Aquarium Fund
Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards
Charles W. & Margaret F. Morrice Fund
Christopher Carroll Fund
Clifford and Bernadette Silliman Family Trust
Computers for Families Fund
Curletti Family Fund
Edward Robert Doty Fund
The Endowment for Youth Committee Fund
Ethel V. Dieterich Fund
F.M. Kauffman Fund
Francis and Marianna Masin Human Services Fund
Friends of the Orcutt Library Fund
Fund for a Better Santa Barbara
George and Marlene Riemer Fund for Cottage Hospital
George and Marlene Riemer Fund for Hillside House
George and Marlene Riemer Fund for the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission
Holderman Endowment for La Patera School Fund
John & Peggy Maximus Fund for Music Academy of the West
John & Peggy Maximus Fund for Santa Barbara Museum of Art
John & Peggy Maximus Fund for Santa Barbara Public Library
John & Peggy Maximus Fund for SB Museum of Natural History
June and Jim Patrick Foodbank Endowment Fund
Katherine Harvey Fellows Endowment Fund
Lobero Theatre Foundation Operating Endowed Fund
Maurice L. and Florence Pfeiler Boyd Fund
Mercedes L. Gutierrez Fund
Mimi Habush Memorial Endowment
Preston and Sterling Morton Fund
Rodney C. Bond Electric Education Scholarship Designated Fund
Santa Barbara Flag Project Endowment Fund
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Endowed Fund
SB Choral Society Artist Support Fund
Science Endowment Fund
Sheila A. Sales Memorial Fund
Sophia Morton Fund
St. Andrew’s Neighborhood Clinic Support Fund
Taft Gardens and Nature Reserve Fund
Thomas E. Hugunin and Elenore H. Hugunin Endowment Fund
Valentich-Scott Fund
William S. Gill Scholarship Fund
Winona Fund for Community Arts Music Association Fund
Yvonne Dibblee Donohoe Fund
Field of Interest Funds
4R Fund
Access Theatre Endowment Fund
Anette La Hough Fund
Ava P. Richards Fund
Ballentine Fund
Barbara J. Wright & Phyllis E. Zimmerman Scholarship Fund
Barbara L. Heimlich Fund
Behrendt-Gildea Foundation
Birnam Wood Helping Hands Fund
Business Community Partners Fund
Carlin Dunne Foundation
Clifford and Bernadette Silliman Family Trust
Community Disaster Relief Fund
David E. Maccianti Memorial Scholarship Fund
Edica Mary Uccello Scholarship Fund
Emily Lawrence Newton Fund
Energy Partners Fund
George H. and Olive J. Griffiths Memorial Scholarship Fund
Gilbert V. Hamilton Fund (for seniors)
Gilbert V. Hamilton Fund (for student aid)
Gwendolyn M. Floro Fund (for grantmaking)
Gwendolyn M. Floro Fund (for scholarships)
Harold R. Schwalenberg Memorial Fund
Hollis Norris Endowed Fund for Conservation and Environment
Isabel Hayden Bartolome Student Loan Fund
Jack Perrin Foundation
Jake Gimbel Trust
John & Peggy Maximus Fund for Foster Care Students
Kuga Fund
Lillian B. Smith Student Aid Fund
Louise F. Mollath Fund
Madeline Verga Schroll Fund
Marianne and Stacy Cocks Endowed Fund
Marianne and Stacy Cocks Fund
Marty Karoff Fund for Social Venture Partners of SB
Mary K. and Edith Pillsbury Foundation Fund
Max Lynn and Shirley A. Lynn Memorial Fund
May Lindgren Fund
Mental Wellness Fund for Youth
Mercedes H. Eichholz Health Services Fund
Mercedes H. Eichholz Scholarship Fund
Mildred G. Federico Fund
Norton R. and Maude Ellen Cowden Income Trust Fund
Ojai Women’s Fund
Otis M. Williams & Evelyn Freeman Williams Fund
P. Paul and Pauline B. Riparetti Medical Scholarship Fund
Patricia Sharpsteen Fund
Robert K. and Barbara J. Straus Fund
Robert O. Dougan Fund
Rubie Burton Fund
Ruth and Walter C. Klass Scholarship Fund
S. Jordan Family Fund
Santa Barbara Better Together Fund
Santa Barbara Boys Choir Scholarship Fund
Santa Barbara Foundation Conservation and Restoration Fund
Shalawa Preserve Maintenance Fund
Sherman and Elizabeth Asche Memorial Scholarship Fund
Silvio DiLoreto Scholarship Fund
Slosser Fund for Nonprofit Collaboration
Social Venture Partners Santa Barbara
The Cleo Purdy Fund for Early Childhood
Education & English Language Proficiency
The George and Marlene Riemer Fund
The Nancy and David Potter Scholarship Fund
Friends of SBF
Celebrating Friends of SBF and Community Champions, we gathered in Orcutt for a luncheon at Trattoria Uliveto. From left: Former SBF Board Chair Diane Adam, SBF President and CEO Jackie Carrera, and Former SBF Trustee Jennifer Murray. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
Celebrate Philanthropy
Mike and Tricia Bouquet and Kate Ferguson were honored for their outstanding civic and charitable work in the Santa Maria Valley at the Celebrate Philanthropy awards luncheon at the Santa Maria Country Club. From left: Mike and Tricia Bouquet and Kate Ferguson. (Photo: Veronica Slavin)
The Pighetti Project
The Toporeck Family Student Aid Fund
Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts
Tri-Counties Blood Bank Field of Interest Fund
Valley Community Hospital Auxiliary Fund
Vincent & Angela Siefe Family Scholarship
Vow4Mal
Westside Youth Initiative
William and Lottie Daniel Childcare Fund
William F. Gunnerson Fund
Zurawski-Slaff Fund
Fiscal Sponsorships
Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences
Arts and Culture Fund for Santa Barbara County
Bright Start
Carpinteria Living Shoreline Festival
CBeyondcancer
Central Coast Riviera Roses
Cognitive Science Project
Community Access & Recreation Projects Fund (C.A.R.P)
Community Trauma Care
Design a Renewable Energy Regulatory Pathway
Discovery Recovery
Down Syndrome Association of Santa Barbara County
Feed the Valley
Folk Orchestra Santa Barbara
Foothills Forever Fund
Fundacion Cielo
The Giving List Women
HCRC Construction Fund
The Hearing Loop Fund
The Home Team
Hope Ranch Beautification Fund
Hope Ranch Community Fund
introNetworks/805Connect Fund
Julia Child Fund for the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience
Juneteenth Santa Barbara
The Key Class Fund
The Legacy Lounge
Magoo’s Shoes
Media Literacy Project: Moment of Truth
Move with Purpose
Needs To Foundation
New Resiliency Fund
Nonprofit Resource Network
One Community Bridge Project
OURVOICE
Pacifica Graduate Institute Fund
Pacifica SOUL Promise
PEAC Foundation
Pomegranate Arts Fund
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Salud Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Better Together
Economic Development
Santa Barbara County Alliance for Arts Education
Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts Grants
The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts expands access to professional performing arts across Santa Barbara County. Through culturally rich performances and learning opportunities, the program connects communities and celebrates diverse artistic traditions.
From
Santa Barbara County Mask Network
Santa Barbara Random Acts of Kindness Fund
The Santa Barbara Reading Coalition
Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series
Santa Ynez Valley Teen Arts
SB County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD)
SB Poetry
SBAcoustic
SBSnap
School Wellness Council
Search and Rescue Project
Sustainablefuture.org
Truth in Recruitment
Vesalius Foundation
Vital Santa Barbara
Zoomers to Boomers
Supporting Organizations
Eric and Kelly Schwartz Charitable Trust
Highland Santa Barbara Foundation Inc
Wyatt Family Foundation
top: Notes for Notes (Photo: Sami Skye Photos), Transform Through Arts (Photo: TTA), La Boheme Dance (Photo: Ronald Williams)
Philanthropic Capital
Built through the generosity of donors and guided by a commitment to long-term impact, the Santa Barbara Foundation stewards philanthropic capital to support current and future needs across our community. In 2025, the Foundation managed $977,764,075 in assets, distributed across a range of charitable funds that reflect the diverse ways donors choose to give.
$153,466,468 – Donor Advised Funds
Donor advised funds provide immediate tax benefits and allow donors to support charities of their choice according to their optimal timetable.
$118,936,685 – Discretionary Funds
Discretionary Funds may be unrestricted or may target an area of particular interest to the donor. They are distributed at the sole discretion of the Santa Barbara Foundation.
$429,578,864 – Supporting Organizations
Supporting Organizations are separately incorporated charitable foundations that support SBF’s mission.
$88,204,485 – Trusts and Gift Annuities
Trusts and Gift Annuities are for donors who want to help their community with a meaningful gift, generate a stream of income, and reduce their taxes.
$76,849,706 – Non-Discretionary Field of Interest Funds/Committee Advised Funds
These Field of Interest Funds are targeted to an area of particular interest and spent in consultation with the donor(s). These include Collective Giving Funds.
$57,343,890 – Donor Designated Funds
Donor Designated Funds enable donors to support one or more specific nonprofit organizations.
$31,935,368 – Agency Endowment Funds
Agency Endowment Funds are gifts entrusted to the Foundation by nonprofits. They are invested and provide a permanent stream of income to the organization.
$18,344,858 – Scholarship Funds
These Field of Interest Funds are targeted to provide scholarships and are spent in consultation with the donor(s).
$3,103,751 – Fiscal Sponsorships
Fiscal Sponsorships offer legal and/or tax-exempt status to groups engaged in activities related to SBF’s mission. A Fiscal Sponsorship allows them to seek grants and solicit tax-deductible donations.
As of and for the year ended December 31, 2025
Balance Sheet*
Santa Barbara Foundation
New Trustees
Randal Hernandez
Randal Hernandez is a seasoned public policy and government relations leader with extensive experience working with major corporations and city and state officials across California. He serves as managing director of IMPOWER Group, a government relations, economic development, and public affairs firm serving clients statewide.
Previously, Randal was director of external affairs for Southern California at Verizon, leading government and community initiatives across Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Orange Counties. He also held senior government relations roles at Union Bank and Bank of America. Earlier, he served on the senior staff of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and as chief of staff to former Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill.
An active civic leader, he serves on the boards of the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, EconAlliance, and Coro California. He holds a BA in Economics and a Master of Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach. Randal resides in the Santa Ynez Valley and Los Angeles with his wife Tracy, President & CEO of the New California Coalition.
Felicita “Cita” A. Torres
Felicita “Cita” A. Torres is an accomplished attorney with the firm of Griffith & Thornburgh where she handles insolvency and bankruptcy matters, as well as counseling school districts in a variety of legal matters, with a particular focus on public construction and facilities issues. Previously, she worked at the US Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, where she gained an in-depth understanding of bankruptcy law and its broad impact on the community. Prior to relocating to Santa Barbara from Phoenix, Arizona, she practiced law at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. Cita holds a BA in human biology from Stanford University and a JD from Harvard Law School.
A dedicated community volunteer, Cita shares her expertise with the Legal Aid Foundation’s Consumer Debt & Bankruptcy Clinic, and has served on the boards of the Santa Barbara Education Foundation and the Montessori Center School. Cita enjoys time outdoors with her family and their dog, Pepper, and can often be found exploring local trails or visiting the library.
Stephen Hicks (1943-2025)
Stephen “Steve” Hicks was a remarkable leader whose ten years of service to the Santa Barbara Foundation from 2015 to 2024 profoundly shaped the organization and community. Known for his kindness, humor, and humility, Steve strengthened the Foundation in countless ways. As Board Chair and later Chair Emeritus, Steve offered steady, thoughtful leadership rooted in deep community knowledge. He served in many roles and on several committees, helping champion the Foundation’s strategy and Impact Investing program. The Foundation carries on this work in honor of his legacy.
2025 Honors
Santa Barbara Foundation
Pacific Coast Business Times
Central Coast Best Places to Work
Rooted Santa Barbara County
Roots to Reach Award
Association for Community Affiliated Health Plans (Collaborative)
Central Coast Tri-County Community Health
Workers/Promotores Capacity Building
Collaborative
Supporting the Safety Net Honorable Mention
Staff Recognized in 2025
Tammy Sims Johnson
Pacific Coast Business Times
Black Leadership Roundtable
Jackie Carrera
A.T. Still University, College for Healthy Communities
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree
Pacific Coast Business Times
Most Influential People in the Region
Philanthropy Roundtable
Top 50 Women in Business
Who’s Who in Nonprofits and Foundations
Stacie Furia, PhD
Center for Evaluation Innovation
Evaluation Roundtable
Katherine Sanders
Pacific Coast Business Times
40 Under 40
SANTA BARBARA
Board of Trustees
Angel Iscovich, MD
Chair
Alexandra Allen Vice Chair
Michael Pfau
Secretary
Danna McGrew
Treasurer
George Adam
Richard Beswick, PhD, MBA
Rafael Gonzalez
Randal Hernandez
Kiah Jordan
Pamela Macal
Lois Mitchell
Ernesto Paredes
Matt Rowe
Lynn Scarlett
James H. Selbert
Alexander F. Simas
Jason Stilwell, PhD
Tracy Stouffer
Felicita A. Torres
Zohar Ziv
2026 Team
Jackie Carrera President & CEO
Tammy Sims Johnson Vice President, Philanthropic Services
Liz Thasiah Vice President, Programs
Bonnie Forssell Vice President, Finance and Administration
Daniel Aguilar Accounting Manager
Rue Barrios Mansour, PhD Strategic Initiatives Project Manager
Anna Boren Lopez Development Manager
Aniston Breslin Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
Bridgette Bugay Senior Programs Officer
Nathan Calilung UCSB Capps Intern
Maria Caudillo Community Engagement Coordinator
Celine Delpoux Director of Accounting
Stacie Furia, PhD Senior Director of Evaluation & Learning
Beatriz García Director of Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships
Shelby Goodwin Donor Services Manager
Peter Hay
Donor Services Coordinator
Julia Kelly
Business Development Manager
Kelly Lazarus
Senior Programs Assistant
Elaine Lew Operations Manager
Andrea Light
Senior Investment & Accounting Analyst
Jeannie Low
Marketing & Communications Content Officer
Victoria Martinez UCSB Capps Intern
Janet Mocker Senior Director of Finance
Kristopher Morrison Senior Investment Officer
Nick Munday Senior Solutions Developer
Hazel Naftzger Data & Evaluation Coordinator
Mia Ogebee UCSB Capps Intern
Katie Pearson Donor Relations Officer
Jamie Perez Program Officer
Alan Romero Operations Assistant
Yeni Salinas
Human Resources Manager
Jessica Sanchez
Senior Director of Donor Relations
Katherine Sanders Senior Marketing & Communications Manager
Erika Schultz
Marketing & Communications Content Officer
Judith Smith-Meyer Director of Marketing & Communications
Eric Stein, PhD Evaluation & Learning Officer
Caleb Stumberg Data Administrator
Deanna Vallejo Senior Programs Officer
Joan Vaughn Senior Accountant
Tatyana Venegas Swanson Director of Grantmaking
Anne Whatley Director of the Collaboration for Social Impact
Natassia Wilder Accounting Specialist
Susie Willett Director of Development
Lani Wollschlager Receptionist
Regina Zeinali
Administrative and Community Engagement Coordinator
Emily Zietlow Director of Compliance & Data Management
2025 Annual Report Acknowledgments
Design: Priscilla Nieto LoBiondo
Printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper with recycled, postconsumer waste content.
SANTA BARBARA
Photos pages 32-35: Veronica Slavin
Back cover: California Rangeland Trust, with support from a Conservation, Environment and Public Trails Grant, developed a conservation easement across 2,500+ acres at Rancho Arbolado adjacent to Gaviota State Park near Lompoc. (Photo: California Rangeland Trust)
