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← SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE.

Totals

Total revenue
$697,127
Total expenses
$836,728
Contributions and grants received
$656,863
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$30,792
Investment income
$12,050
Other revenue
-$2,578
Total assets, end of year
$970,227
Total liabilities, end of year
$190,697
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$779,530
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$671,514
Management and general expenses
$120,068
Fundraising expenses
$45,146
Program service expenses (Part III)
$671,514

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $4,634

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $8,000

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $25,479

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $618,750

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $14,500

  • 2a · Program service revenue: BB Academy Camp Fees

    total $30,792 · related or exempt $30,792

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $12,050 · related or exempt $12,050

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $5,101

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $8,000

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $7,808

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$2,707 · excluded -$2,707

  • 11a · Other revenue: Other income

    total $129 · related or exempt $129

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $129

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $165,674 · program services $115,972 · management and general $24,851 · fundraising $24,851

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $111,004 · program services $110,248 · fundraising $756

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $22,515 · program services $19,978 · management and general $1,582 · fundraising $955

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $25,983 · management and general $25,983

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $138,488 · program services $129,810 · fundraising $8,678

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $4,126 · program services $3,726 · management and general $400

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,714 · program services $3,397 · management and general $2,718 · fundraising $2,599

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $26,608 · program services $1,954 · management and general $24,654

  • 17 · Travel

    total $172 · program services $172

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $4,145 · program services $1,566 · management and general $2,535 · fundraising $44

  • 20 · Interest

    total $4,121 · management and general $4,121

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $43,113 · program services $43,113

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $71,288 · program services $46,128 · management and general $22,737 · fundraising $2,423

  • 24a · Other expenses: Direct Program Expenses

    total $130,321 · program services $130,321

  • 24b · Other expenses: Equipment costs

    total $22,940 · program services $22,940

  • 24c · Other expenses: Auto Expenses

    total $22,771 · program services $22,771

  • 24d · Other expenses: In-Kind Program Expense

    total $14,500 · program services $14,500

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $20,245 · program services $4,918 · management and general $10,487 · fundraising $4,840

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $161,418 · end of year $255,827

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $834,433 · end of year $531,120

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $18,133 · end of year $28,599

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $23,440 · end of year $31,318

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $251,989

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $157,938

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $61,435 · end of year $94,051

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,000 · end of year $29,312

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $77,807 · end of year $80,299

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $104,921 · end of year $88,327

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $22,071

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $82,648 · end of year $104,036

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $836,483 · end of year $675,494

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade was created to prepare for and respond to natural disasters and community crises through volunteer training, coordination and deployment.

  • The Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade mobilized 1,487 volunteers who contributed 7,315 hours of community service in 2025. The Bucket Brigade also continued to build its programs that develop volunteer deployment and leadership capacity through climate-adaptive community restoration projects in Santa Barbara County. At the Bucket Brigade Academy, 43 student leaders completed 2,334 hours of training and 72 ASHI/SOLO first-aid certifications were awarded. The top program graduates were hired as "Volunteer Coordinators" to lead weekly volunteer projects in Santa Barbara County.Continued on Schedule O The Humanitarian Garden Project: Student Volunteer Coordinators led 275 volunteers through 1,101 hours of community service, restoring one acre of a large watershed ecosystem. The Walk Montecito Project 0.75 miles of new safe-routes-to-school trails were built to restore pedestrian access and improve community safety in the area affected by the 2018 debris flow. The Humanitarian Farm Project: Student Volunteer Coordinators led 601 volunteers contributed 2,103 who grew 17,392 pounds of organic produce and donated it all to local food-aid in Santa Barbara County. Volunteer Leadership Services for the City of Goleta at the Ellwood Mesa Restoration Project where student Volunteer Coordinators led 234 volunteers contributed 1,777 hours to restore a major winter nesting site for Monarch butterflies planting 2,300 trees and native plant seedlings.

    Expenses $671,514 · Revenue $30,792

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Dr Mara Sweeney

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Amanda Sue Carlisle

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Craig Granet

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denise Walden Cooper

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Ben Curtis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Abraham Powell

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $165,674
    From this org
    $165,674
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $165,674
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $165,674

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
20 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202632019349300533

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