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SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE

EIN 83-1156413 SANTA BARBARA, CA

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Revenue 2025
$697,127
Expenses 2025
$836,728

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 50640

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $697,127
    Expenses
    $836,728
    Contributions
    $656,863
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $672,628
    Expenses
    $662,922
    Contributions
    $670,153
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $625,254
    Expenses
    $978,438
    Contributions
    $623,261
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,003,863
    Expenses
    $730,169
    Contributions
    $1,013,774
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,214,008
    Expenses
    $349,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,284,387

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $307,154
    Expenses
    $424,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,807

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $429,755
    Expenses
    $416,483
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,985

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,136,254
    Expenses
    $907,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,220

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.