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BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,820,481 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($737,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
$4.4M
19/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County does

Mission

The specific and primary purpose of the organization is to promote the physical, mental, and moral well being of youth.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated the boys and girls club of santa cruz providing core programs in (1)education and career development (2)character and leadership development (3)the arts (4) health and life skills and (5)sports, fitness and recreation.

    $2,200,029 spent$748,825 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,200,029.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 135 ($1.7M) Expenses 142 ($1.9M) Net assets 90 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 122 ($1.5M) Expenses 147 ($2.0M) Net assets 81 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 194 ($2.5M) Expenses 142 ($1.9M) Net assets 109 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 200 ($2.5M) Expenses 147 ($2.0M) Net assets 183 ($4.1M)2022 Revenue 209 ($2.7M) Expenses 176 ($2.4M) Net assets 186 ($4.1M)2023 Revenue 211 ($2.7M) Expenses 189 ($2.6M) Net assets 197 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 204 ($2.6M) Expenses 200 ($2.7M) Net assets 196 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (204)Expenses (200)Net assets (196)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.4M (+57%).

$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.2M
$2.8M
$4.4M
$4.3M
$4.6M
$4.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 5% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$89k
’17
−$213k
’18
−$445k
’19
$528k
’20
$552k
’21
$271k
’22
$100k
’23
−$127k
’24
2.8
months of
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

Lis Dubois

Executive director

Board chair

Jeff Moise

Safety chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1318212021171715
Joined·+6+4+0+2+1+3+0
No longer listed·1111532
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $84k → $370k.

9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.

26%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 67% · 2019 74% · 2020 66% · 2021 34% · 2022 59% · 2023 32% — broadly stable.

“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

47% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
OR
NV
CT
CA
CO
AZ
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $583k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY?
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY (California) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,820,481 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($737,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,820,481 in grants to BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY?
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $737,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing