California · Nonprofit
California Veterans Assistance
California Veterans Assistance (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,465 to it, the largest being BAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE ($440,904). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $755k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What California Veterans Assistance does
Mission
To provide programs to assist homeless veterans and veterans at risk of becoming homeless with personal skills, training and employment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
SSVF - Supportive Services for Veterans and Families. SSVF assists veterans and their families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, to regain stability and permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness. SSVF provides supportive services to resolve the immediate crisis & promote housing stability. The intervention is temporary. Homeless prevention is intended to prevent fist time and repeated homelessness or a recurrance of a housing crisis. Rapis rehousing is intended to end homelessness, reduce the time spent homeless & increase job & income growth. The program served 131 veterans.
$964,587 spent$964,308 earned by the program50% of program spendingPer diem grants include GDP, Bridge & SITH programs. Bridge & SITH are alcohol & drug free transitional housing programs for single male veterans designed to identify & treat the issued that caused their homelessness, assist veterans with residential stability, increase their skills and/or income & provide them with a greater self determination. The programs require veterans to have one on one meetings with their case manager, participate in daily living skill classes, participate in employment training programs, commit to alcohol & drug free living & participate in volunteer activities. The program served 76 veterans.
$658,183 spent$642,636 earned by the program34% of program spendingOther programs include Covey Cottages, low barrier housing, homeless housing assistance and prevention, case management, and other services. Some of these programs serve nonveteran individuals. The programs are designed to provide assistance to homeless individuals and individuals at risk of becoming homeless. These programs served 39 veterans.
$300,117 spent$240,811 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,922,887.
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 $2.0M to $3.0M (+44%).
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 90% · 2018 87% · 2019 84% · 2020 86% · 2021 75% · 2022 62% · 2023 83% · 2024 83% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of California Veterans Assistance’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Heather Kimmel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $121k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 California Veterans Assistance’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
California Veterans Assistance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 California Veterans Assistance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 55% · 2021 39% · 2022 97% · 2023 92% — 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
17% of California Veterans Assistance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
88% of California Veterans Assistance's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
California Veterans Assistance runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding California Veterans Assistance receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$17.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$221k
- Department of Labor$28k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like California Veterans Assistance
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Veterans Assistance: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Veterans Assistance?
- California Veterans Assistance (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $755,465 to it, the largest being BAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE ($440,904). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Veterans Assistance have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $755,465 in grants to California Veterans Assistance, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of California Veterans Assistance?
- BAKERSFIELD KERN REGIONAL HOMELESS COLLABORATIVE is the largest funder on record, with $440,904 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Veterans Assistance 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 9 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