California · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,647,593 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($12,072,538). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County does
Mission
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County serves and advocates for families and individuals in need, especially those living in poverty. Rooted in gospel values, we work to create a more just and compassionate community in which people of all cultures and beliefs can participate and prosper.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children, youth and family development:the children, youth and family development serves all ages through a community-based approach to empower participants to improve their education, health and family relationships to strengthen their resiliency and prevent poverty. See schedule o for detail on specific programs.
$16,622,764 spentof which $1,123,498 as grants$18,602,847 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity advocacy and family support:this program includes older adult services; emergency programs and housing services; cathedral social ministries; advocacy and community engagement; and youth empowered for success. See schedule o for detail on specific programs.
$11,768,923 spentof which $3,810,600 as grants$6,796,193 earned by the program26% of program spendingRefugee foster care:provides support and placement for unaccompanied refugee minors with host foster families in santa clara county and eight other counties in the bay area. The program trains and supports persons who want to become foster parents. The program also covered afghan refugee support and placement.
$5,829,629 spentof which $1,434,697 as grants$6,454,267 earned by the program13% of program spendingEconomic development services:enables participants to move out of poverty and toward self-reliance. Programs under the economic development services umbrella include:employment network - provides comprehensive job readiness, pre-employment, job placement, job retention, and job upgrade services to people with mental illness and those formerly incarcerated through focus for work and right directions programs and helps any unemployed person find work through pathfinder. - focus for work - provides individual and group employment preparation services, job development services, and post-employment support for adults diagnosed with mental illness. - right directions - provides individual and group employment preparation services, job development services, and post-employment support for adults re-entering from jail or prison. - individual placement & support services - provides full scope employment services for individuals with a mental health diagnosis and desire to work. - fee for service - provides employment services for adults referred by the department of rehabilitation. - jobtrek - provides services for individuals referred by the probation department of santa clara county and…
$4,866,764 spentof which $415,063 as grants$4,978,496 earned by the program11% of program spendingBehavioral health services:working to improve the wellbeing of our participants through mental health and case management services, programs under the behavioral health services (bhs) umbrella include: - family and children's services - offers outpatient services for children who are seriously and emotionally disturbed and their families. Services include psychiatric evaluations, medical monitoring, therapy, prevention and early intervention, case management and family support, including supervised and home visits. Programs include: children's counseling; prevention and early intervention; and baby steps. - older adult services: older adult outpatient program - provides case management and mental health services, including medication support, to older adults who are experiencing chronic emotional problems. Older adult outpatient program also develops support groups and educates family members and community service providers about helping older adults with mental health conditions. - transitioning off and preventing placement (topp) - provides mental health services to youth ages 5 to 18 in santa clara county. Clients cannot have medi-cal and must either be uninsured or have…
$3,747,300 spentof which $8,270 as grants$4,405,018 earned by the program8% of program spendingFootsteps: paths to self-sufficiency:this place-based and family-centered community change model, which is part of the agency's strategic vision, assists entire families on their journeys to economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Family members ranging in age from newborn to grandparents are paired with guides to help them better access multiple services based on their multiple and individual needs. The goal is breaking the cycle of poverty through trauma-informed care, service guides, wrap-around services, a seamless welcome, and community engagement. "footsteps" is evidence-informed to disrupt poverty in specific neighborhoods. In addition to the increase in braided services for families, this strategic initiative is supported by a responsive infrastructure to upgrade operations including the agency's data, technology and systems; as well as becoming a "world-class learning organization; and ensuring new and additional funding.inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of silicon valley, the organization is reimagining social justice and social service programs. The goal is to transform the ways in which we, as a community, address not just the symptoms of povertyfood insecurity,…
$1,663,245 spentof which $1,000 as grants$1,518,765 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,498,625.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $37M (+20%).
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 59% · 2018 65% · 2019 72% · 2020 63% · 2021 59% · 2022 60% · 2023 55% · 2024 63% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Don Taylor
Chief executive officer (incoming)
Board chair
Bishop Oscar Cantu
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 35 funders, grant income fell $6.5M → $5.4M.
23 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $46k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Charities Housing Development Corp of Santa Clara County). These are real filings, and they are not money CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA 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
83% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 36% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — 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
57% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
93% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.7M
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charities Housing Development Corporation · exempt
- Diocese of San Jose · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY?
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,647,593 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($12,072,538). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $46,647,593 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $12,072,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA 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.
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 90 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