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SANTA BARBARA ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC

EIN 27-3262168 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Revenue 2025
$422,301
Expenses 2025
$406,802

Program services were 71.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A20
Classification
1000
Street
631 GARDEN ST

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 Arts Collaborative (SBAC) is an inclusive group of artists and arts supporters committed to sustaining and growing all forms of the arts in Santa Barbara. SBAC welcomes all to participate in the focused support of individual artists and arts organizations that contribute to the unique cultural ecology of our community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative (SBAC) is an inclusive group of artists and arts supporters committed to sustaining and growing all forms of the arts in Santa Barbara. SBAC welcomes all to participate in the focused support of individual artists and arts organizations that contribute to the unique cultural ecology of our community.All of our activities are collaborations between the SBAC and local artists, organizations, government entities, and individuals, or other sponsorships of small arts projects including fiscal sponsorships, mentorships and grants. We play a unique role in the community, using a combination of openness, collaboration, practicality, and the conservation of resources to help catalyze ideas multiple City and County Masterplans have called for for decades.

  • The chief focus of the SBAC for the last decade has been the building of the Community Arts Workshop, a space called for in a community-wide City Arts Master Plan published in 1985, and meeting a broadly identified need for affordable arts space. The SBACs origins are as an ad hoc committee organized in 2007 in response to the changing landscape for arts funding in Santa Barbara. A series of community meetings and conversations were convened to discuss loss of arts funding; loss of affordable space; an identified siloing of resources, organizations, communities, and opportunities; and other concerns. In response, a group of artists, arts organizations and concerned citizens came together to identify new and innovative ways to sustain the arts for future generations. A need was identified in the community for an organization that existed to stand in the gapsone that existed to collaborate, find and foster new opportunities, and broadly work to build the health of the local art scene. Since that time, the SBAC has collaborated to pilot and grow dozens, if not hundreds of projects and eventssome of which have become lasting programs of the SBAC like the Community Arts Workshop, Pianos on State, and Funk Zone Mapssome of which are now run by other organizations and individuals. We look for opportunitiesprojects or resources that would benefit the whole cultural ecosystem that no one else is suited to do, and work to connect resources to help make them happen. With the Campaign for the Community Arts Workshop completed, in 2025 through 2028 we are focusing our resources and fundraising efforts to support new programs like Opening Doors, Art KIT, Area Meeting, and the Community Arts Residency, expanding volunteer support by mobilizing Outreach Committee members, continuing development of the ArtZone apps potential as a promotional service for our local arts and culture sector, among other development goals.

    Expenses $288,985 · Grants $5,917

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • CASEY CALDWELL

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $95,365
    From this org
    $95,365
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • HELENE SCHNEIDER

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • NATHAN VONK

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LEON OLSON

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • SHARYN MAIN

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DANA WHITE

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROB SKINNER

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GINNY BRUSH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LAURA RAGAN

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IAN SMITH

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOSEPH VELASCO

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DUG UYESAKA

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $422,301
    Expenses
    $406,802
    Contributions
    $247,027
    Grants paid
    $5,917
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $375,574
    Expenses
    $411,656
    Contributions
    $222,001
    Grants paid
    $36,209
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $427,775
    Expenses
    $311,256
    Contributions
    $291,006
    Grants paid
    $4,843
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $562,398
    Expenses
    $258,997
    Contributions
    $442,655
    Grants paid
    $25,225

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
    $351,249
    Expenses
    $158,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,310,806

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $167,171
    Expenses
    $171,201
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,113,755

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $376,537
    Expenses
    $109,444
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,111,851

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,942
    Expenses
    $118,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,125

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $308,587
    Expenses
    $86,345
    Assets (EOY)
    $758,790

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $96,068
    Expenses
    $67,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $505,643

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $171,668
    Expenses
    $34,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $478,425

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,036
    Expenses
    $14,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,964

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
NATHAN VONK
Mailing address
POBOX 21351SANTA BARBARA CA 93121
Website
WWW.SBARTSCOLLABORATIVE.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.