2024-2025 Community Grant Program (California)

The Santa Barbara Foundation is requesting applications for its 2024-2025 Community Grant Program.

Donor Name: Santa Barbara Foundation

State: California

County: Santa Barbara County (CA)

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 03/15/2024

Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000

Grant Duration: 2 Years

Details:

The Santa Barbara Foundation’s Community Grant Program offers multi-year, general operating grants in three program areas:

• Behavioral Health & Health Care 
  • Priority will be given to organizations that:
    • demonstrate sustained and/or increased demand for behavioral health and/or health care services
    • take steps to sustain or expand organizational capacity to address demand for services
    • provide holistic approaches to serving clients, undertaken by the agency itself or in partnership with others
    • demonstrate cultural competence among volunteers, staff, and board members for the communities served
    • seek to dismantle language, cultural, and other barriers that prevent low-income and marginalized populations from accessing services
    • develop strategies to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within their agency
    • work in community-wide collaborative approaches to address behavioral health and/or health care issues
    • address youth mental health needs.
• Food 
  • Priority will be given to organizations that:
    • demonstrate sustained and/or increased demand for programs that provide food security
    • take steps to sustain or expand organizational capacity to address demand for services
    • provide holistic approaches to serving clients, undertaken by the agency itself or in partnership with others
    • demonstrate cultural competence among volunteers, staff, and board members for the communities served
    • seek to dismantle language, cultural, and other barriers that prevent low-income and marginalized populations from accessing services
    • develop strategies to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within their agency
    • work in community-wide collaborative approaches to address food insecurity
    • serve seniors.
• Shelter & Safety   
  • Priority will be given to organizations that:
    • provide emergency shelter
    • provide housing loss prevention assistance
    • demonstrate sustained and/or increased demand for shelter and safety services, including housing loss prevention services
    • take steps to sustain or expand organizational capacity to address demand for services
    • provide holistic approaches to serving clients, undertaken by the agency itself or in partnership with others
    • demonstrate cultural competence among volunteers, staff, and board members for the communities served
    • seek to dismantle language, cultural, and other barriers that prevent low-income and marginalized populations from accessing services
    • develop strategies to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and access within their agency
    • work in community-wide collaborative approaches to address shelter, safety, and housing loss prevention issues
    • prioritize the following vulnerable populations:
    • youth who are homeless
    • families with children, including pregnant mothers
    • women
    • seniors
    • individuals fleeing domestic violence/sex trafficking.

Funding Information

The maximum award for the multi-year Community Grants is a total of $60,000, $30,000 per year for two years. The grant review panel may reduce or increase award amounts at its discretion and based on funding availability.

Eligibility Criteria 

• Organizations must be providing direct services or serving as a coordinating body to address the program area for which they applied (Behavioral Health & Health Care, Food, Shelter & Safety)
• Organizations must be well-managed, financially viable, and operate effective programs that primarily serve the needs of poor and underserved communities
• Grants are only available to organizations serving within Santa Barbara County
• Organizations must be certified as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or use a fiscal sponsor with 501(c)(3) tax status.

Grant Limitations

Grants are not intended for:

• services and programs that are not focused on the program area in which the organization has applied
• scholarships
• individuals.

For more information, visit SBF.