California · Nonprofit
5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC
5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,164,063 to it, the largest being BALAY KO FOUNDATION ($770,868). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What 5cities Homeless Coalition Inc does
Mission
5cities homeless coalition (5chc) is transforming lives in san luis obispo county, california, from avila beach to nipomo. 5chc strengthens the community by mobilizing resources, fostering hope, and advocating for the homeless and those facing homelessness. Through collaboration and leadership 5chc is building an engaged community that fully understands the complexities of homelessness and actively shares the responsibility of creating and implementing solutions to reduce it.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The housing support program serves those who are homeless or at risk of losing housing in san luis obispo county. It provides case management, rental and deposit assistance, information and referral to community services, comprehensive needs assessment, identification of barriers to success, and development of an immediate action plan. Visitors to 5chc's office are provided access to computers, internet, phone charging, mailing address, and food and hygiene supplies. The program also serves veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing housing through a joint effort with good samaritan shelter to provide supportive services for veteran families (ssvf). The united states department of veterans affairs provides funding for this program.
$1,203,724 spent28% of program spendingThe immediate needs program assists homeless and low-income families who reside in the five cities area (arroyo grande, pismo beach, grover beach, shell beach, avila beach) with funds to address their immediate needs and move them to self-sufficiency, home stability, and economic improvement. Assistance is used for utilities, fuel, auto repairs, food, clothing, and unpaid bills paid directly to applicable vendors on behalf of program participants. The homeless youth program matches a case manager with unaccompanied youth aged 16-24 to provide education, connection, and services such as immediate needs, housing, and development of an individualized action plan to assist them in living independently, maintaining steady employment, and continuing their education. Those enrolled in 5chc's case management program are offered additional guidance and advocacy for obtaining and retaining public benefits such as supplemental security income (ssi), social security disability insurance (ssdi), calfresh, and other assistance. Participants are encouraged to learn financial literacy and budgeting.
$1,958,010 spent45% of program spendingThe warming center provides an overnight warming center during the winter months when temperature predictions are at or below 38 degrees or there is rain potential of 50% or more from november through april annually. Those staying at the warming center are provided meals and laundry services and may arrive by 5:30pm and leave by 7am the following day.
$305,893 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$892,519 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,360,146.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $3.3M (+92%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 70% · 2020 56% · 2021 81% · 2022 77% · 2023 83% · 2024 79% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Janna Nichols
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $360k → $339k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 85% · 2019 91% · 2020 82% · 2021 52% · 2022 31% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $864k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC?
- 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,164,063 to it, the largest being BALAY KO FOUNDATION ($770,868). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,164,063 in grants to 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC?
- BALAY KO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $770,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing