MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T31Z

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 5001

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

• GRANTS ARE PROVIDED FOR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE AND GOOD OF THE MONTECITO COMMUNITY. BY THE TERMS OF ITS FOUNDING DOCUMENTS, THE MONTECITO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CONFINES ITS SUPPORT TO PROJECTS LOCATED IN MONTECITO WHICH IS DEFINED AS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE MONTECITO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, AND IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT AREAS.AREAS IN WHICH WE PROVIDE GRANTS INCLUDE:PROJECTS WHICH PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY AND PROPERTY PROTECTION, SUCH AS TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS, FIRE PROTECTION, FLOOD CONTROL, AND EARTHQUAKE AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS.PROJECTS AND EVENTS WHICH FOSTER THE COMMUNITY AND SPIRIT OF MONTECITO, SUCH AS COMMUNITY CELEBRATIONS, EVENTS HONORING INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS FOR IMPROVING OUR COMMUNITY AND EVENTS WHICH ENCOURAGE GREATER COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.ACTIVITIES WHICH INFORM RESIDENTS OF MONTECITO ON LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS, SUCH AS PUBLIC FORUMS ON MATTERS OF CURRENT INTEREST OR CONCERN, LIBRARY RESOURCES, AND OTHER PUBLIC RESOURCE INFORMATION SERVICES.BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF OUR PUBLIC ROADS, PARKS, LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES.IMPROVEMENT AND, OCCASIONALLY, ACQUISITION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, SUCH AS PARKS, OPEN SPACES, BEACH-SIDE ENTRANCES, TRAIL HEADS, AND TRAILS.MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF OUR COMMUNITY, SUCH AS COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP DAYS OF THE ROADSIDES AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES.ASSISTING LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES WITH CAPITAL PROJECTS AND OTHER UNIQUE NEEDS.

  Expenses $283,773 · Grants $189,965

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.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $395,773

  Expenses

  $308,548

  Contributions

  $199,207

  Grants paid

  $189,965

• 2024

  Revenue

  $322,932

  Expenses

  $137,296

  Contributions

  $142,572

  Grants paid

  $75,490

• 2023

  Revenue

  $326,433

  Expenses

  $298,881

  Contributions

  $186,263

  Grants paid

  $243,755

• 2022

  Revenue

  $159,087

  Expenses

  $46,439

  Contributions

  $118,105

  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

  $198,328

  Expenses

  $69,185

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,234,323

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $205,667

  Expenses

  $63,632

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,118,199

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $79,424

  Expenses

  $139,003

  Assets (EOY)

  $965,665

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $74,407

  Expenses

  $92,485

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,021,281

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $29,749

  Expenses

  $48,400

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,044,670

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $41,906

  Expenses

  $27,123

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,060,873

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $40,754

  Expenses

  $30,841

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,046,261

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $75,421

  Expenses

  $46,554

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,040,436

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $105,258

  Expenses

  $109,245

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,009,020

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $56,303

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,021,216

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• Montecito Retirement Association

  $177,040

  2023 · Triangle restoration project

• SANTA BARBARA BUCKET BRIGADE

  $40,000

  2025 · SINALOA NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL

• MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST

  $30,000

  2025 · SING! AFTER SCHOOL CHORAL PROGRAM

• GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND

  $25,000

  2025 · HISTORICAL VIDEO

• MONTECITO WATER DISTRICT

  $25,000

  2025 · DEMONSTRATION GARDEN AND SIGNAGE

• Montecito Family YMCA

  $15,000

  2024 · Summer camp funding

• Friends of Montecito Library

  $15,000

  2024 · ADA improvements

• MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT

  $15,000

  2025 · WALL IMPROVEMENTS

• CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA (MONTECITO FAMILY YMCA)

  $15,000

  2025 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• MOVE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

  $12,500

  2025 · TRANSPORTATION SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAM

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,900

  2024 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,050

  2023 · PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT

• SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION

  $6,000

  2022 · PHILANTHROPY, VOLUNTEERISM AND GRANTMAKING

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