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Community Impacts

The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to hosting world-class events and experiences in a spectacular setting. This goal is achieved by improving and maintaining the facilities, making our community a better place through youth outreach and greener practices, and providing unparalleled customer service.

  • Concert

    • Over 600 concerts since the year 2000
    • Over 1.2 million concert-goers since 2010

  • Give

    • Almost $50 million in improvements funded by private donations
    • 71% of major donors give more than once. The Bowl creates Donors For Life

  • Outreach

    • $2.1m funding distributed to programs since 2010
    • 2,281 tickets subsidized since the start of Community Ticket Subsidy in 2016
    • 550 instruments repaired or replaced per year over the last 5 years

  • Venue

    • Stage roof can hang 250,000 pounds of equipment
    • All stonework done by stones quarried on-site
    • First out-door event venue in the United States to install a Hearing Loop

  • Greening

    • Over 65,000 plastic cups off-set
    • 5,000 bikes valeted for FREE!
    • 91.8% of event waste diverted from land-fill since 2016