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Brittingham Family Foundation
ActivePhilanthropy & VoluntarismFunds Individuals
SANTA BARBARA, CAWebsite
About Brittingham Family Foundation
The Brittingham Family Foundation concentrates on capital and scholarship support, with a strong emphasis on higher education scholarships and local Santa Barbara cultural and park infrastructure. They make sizeable, targeted gifts for capital campaigns, building maintenance/loan forgiveness, and scholarship/endowment funds, and show some loyalty to repeat university grantees. Their giving blends local community-building (parks, theaters, arts centers) with investments in education and athletic philanthropy.
Focus Areas
University scholarship and endowment funds (e.g., business school scholarships and named university funds)Capital campaigns and facility support for Santa Barbara performing arts organizations (Lobero Theatre; Santa Barbara Center for Performing Arts)Park and outdoor recreation capital projects in Santa Barbara County (e.g., Elings Park campaigns)Independent/private school support and community recovery funds for regional boarding/day schools (e.g., Thacher School)Athlete and national-sport support (e.g., US Olympic and Paralympic Foundation)
Who They Fund
indigent immigrants and immigrant communities in Santa Barbara County
About Brittingham Family Foundation
A defining feature of Brittingham Family Foundation grantmaking is its repeated support for named scholarship funds and capital projects that tie education to place. The foundation has backed the Scott and Ella Brittingham Viking Fund at the University of Wisconsin Foundation in multiple years, while also funding the Brittingham Family Scholarship Fund at USC Marshall School of Business. Those grants sit alongside major local support for Santa Barbara institutions, including Elings Park Foundation for the EPIC! Capital Campaign - Godric Grove and the Santa Barbara Center for Performing Arts for loan forgiveness. The pattern points to a funder that works through specific institutions rather than broad thematic grants alone. Their giving also reaches into arts and community infrastructure. Recent awards include Lobero Theatre Foundation for capital campaign and building maintenance endowment, Fractured Atlas Productions Inc for Plays in Verse and SJK Art & Humanity, and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation for a capital campaign. The foundation’s portfolio shows a mix of scholarship support, facility funding, and targeted operating help, with some recipients appearing more than once across the recent-grants list. The result is a grantmaker that combines long-term educational support with place-based cultural and civic investments.
What Brittingham Family Foundation Funds
Education is a major thread in the foundation’s giving. They awarded $150,000 to USC Marshall School of Business for the Brittingham Family Scholarship Fund and $25,000 to Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara for the CSUCI BSN Nursing Program 5 Scholarships. Arts and theater also receive steady support. Brittingham Family Foundation gave $100,000 to Santa Barbara Center for Performing Arts for loan forgiveness, and $40,000 to Fractured Atlas Productions Inc for Plays in Verse. Their community and infrastructure grants include $150,000 to Elings Park Foundation for the EPIC! Capital Campaign - Godric Grove and $100,000 to Lobero Theatre Foundation for capital campaign and building maintenance endowment. The foundation also made a $75,000 grant to Thacher School Inc for a community restoration and recovery fund, showing interest in institutional recovery and resilience.
How Brittingham Family Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2M
Total Assets
$57.9M
Total Revenue
$3.3M
Total Expenses
$2.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $10K, with a median of $5K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$5K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
Regional8 states funded
Funding intensity
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