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DOCTORS WITHOUT WALLS-SANTA BARBARA STREET MEDICINE

EIN 33-1210731 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Revenue 2024
$820,348
Expenses 2024
$691,240

Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E40
Classification
1000
Street
1528 CHAPALA ST STE 301

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 · 2024

Mission

To provide free, volunteer medical care for the most vulnerable, underserved populations in Santa Barbara County, when and where they are in need, including in times of disaster, and to provide education and training to our volunteers and others to promote the excellent practice of humanitarian medicine in our own community.

  • Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW) has been providing medical assistance to the underserved populations in Santa Barbara County for 17 years. DWW programs address the timely treatment of the medical needs of Santa Barbara County's most vulnerable populations, the working poor and homeless. Our volunteer teams screen, diagnose, record and treat the diseases and illnesses of our clients, in the early stages, so that medical problems do not become acute. DWW conducts medical van weekly daytime street outreach missions (7) and backpack-based walking evening street medicine outreach missions (3). DWW has reopened the weekly Women's Free Homeless Clinic (WFHC) in partnership with Transition House (2 Fridays). Immediately following the Friday clinic, the WFHC conducts medical outreach.

    Expenses $446,658

  • The mission of the Women's Free Homeless Clinic (WFHC) is to provide a safe, trusting, female-only environment in which the unsheltered or marginally sheltered women of Santa Barbara can access medical and mental health care and referrals to community resources. This is achieved by a research-based integrative approach that addresses their basic human needs, while supporting health and further growth. The integrative approach incorporates the following guidelines: meeting immediate physical needs; building trusting relationships; coordinating care with other potential service areas for the individual and addressing behavioral issues as they pertain to the physical health of the individual. WFHC clients will see a clinician for medical needs, receive acupuncture, assistance with applying for housing, insurance, or school, they will be able to do laundry, take showers, attend mental health groups with a mental health specialist, attend self-defense classes, as well as yoga.

    Expenses $58,817

  • Our Companion Care teams provide services to our clients in developing care plans and helping clients navigate the healthcare system by accompanying and introducing clients to local medical homes, specialists, or other needed resources. During COVID-19, DWW continued to provide medical services to the most vulnerable populations in Santa Barbara County by practicing street medicine in encampments, abandoned buildings, freeway onramps and offramps and wherever they are. Our Companion Care teams provided education and medical services to reduce the spread of the pandemic while still providing the best medical care possible for unsheltered populations. In April 2023 DWW started our Enhanced Care Management Program providing both clinical and non-clinical care to the unsheltered homeless.

    Expenses $51,850

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Connor Cote

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Chelsea Dean

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jordan Turetsky

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maureen Ellenberger

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Priti Gagneja

    Medical Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jorie Nilson

    WFHC Medical Directo

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lynn Matis

    Leader-Parks/Street

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Sears

    Lead RN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lauren Beltran

    Case Manager

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosendo Barajas

    Case Manager

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marguerite Sanchez

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $39,000
    From this org
    $39,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $820,348
    Expenses
    $691,240
    Contributions
    $804,261
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $498,003
    Expenses
    $602,000
    Contributions
    $489,229
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $606,202
    Expenses
    $323,466
    Contributions
    $563,280
    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
    $539,077
    Expenses
    $459,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $617,249

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $369,492
    Expenses
    $348,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $413,553

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $286,225
    Expenses
    $385,915
    Assets (EOY)
    $335,570

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $375,010
    Expenses
    $453,568
    Assets (EOY)
    $383,203

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $433,497
    Expenses
    $434,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $381,751

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $565,489
    Expenses
    $348,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,373

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $300,966
    Expenses
    $244,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,858

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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.