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SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION

EIN 77-0071544 SANTA BARBARA, CA

Revenue 2024
$2,969,512
Expenses 2024
$3,729,959

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20I
Classification
1000
Street
1528 CHAPALA ST STE 308

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

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

  • Santa Barbara Education Foundation serves as an advocate and raises funds to support Santa Barbara Unified School District's 21 schools, to ensure a well rounded education (including arts and music) for all 12,500 students. The Foundation's priorities are literacy, math proficiency and student engagement and also focuses on access to college, the performing arts, mental wellness and early childhood development. The Foundation has provided the campaign leadership for several ballot initiatives that have brought $18 million for classroom enrichment and $110 million for infrastructure improvements.

    Expenses $2,860,400 · Revenue $167,110

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Mat Gradias

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victoria Juarez

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tisha Ford

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Ciontea

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa White

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elke Kane

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roxane Bryne

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Isis Castaneda

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eva Maria Catalan

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Milem

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Ramirez-Zarate

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beth Rogers

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donna Ronzone

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pedro Paz

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $152,566
    From this org
    $134,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,616
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,950
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,991
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,625
    Filer's total
    $152,566

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,969,512
    Expenses
    $3,729,959
    Contributions
    $2,704,743
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,502,354
    Expenses
    $3,027,114
    Contributions
    $2,281,985
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,973,513
    Expenses
    $2,961,088
    Contributions
    $2,736,194
    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
    $2,636,994
    Expenses
    $2,389,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,480,018

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,433,593
    Expenses
    $2,346,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,894,063

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,744,596
    Expenses
    $1,922,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,427,599

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,845,857
    Expenses
    $1,839,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,832,984

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,845,857
    Expenses
    $1,839,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,832,984

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,330
    Expenses
    $1,330,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,478,476

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,218,077
    Expenses
    $1,493,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,864,437

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,486,149
    Expenses
    $1,927,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,214,403

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.