Funding Areas
MAKING INVESTMENTS FOR THE LONG-TERM BENEFIT OF SANTA BARBARA
We recognize that there may be important projects that do not fall into our primary focus areas that can have a lasting beneficial impact for the Santa Barbara region. Consequently, we will participate, from time to time, in those efforts. In addition to looking for lasting impact, we are interested in projects that have broad participation from a variety of other funding sources, including local foundations and individuals. We view ourselves as secondary participants and our grants are likely to be modest. In general we do not support capital campaigns for organizations whose missions do not fall within our primary focus areas. Also, as a rule, we do not support events, or endowments.
Starting in 2020 we recognized that there were events in the wider world that also had lasting impacts on the Santa Barbara region, or important events where we saw clear links between our community and the global community. In response we have made a handful of grants outside of our primary areas of focus and outside our geography. These are, almost always, by invitation.