California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,510,807 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($710,091). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Center for Community Solutions does
Mission
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. The vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and peaceful community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal, Counseling, and Advocacy Services (LCAS):Legal ServicesUnder the supervision of the Legal Services Director, a team of California-licensed attorneys and legal advocates, serves survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault and is the largest no-cost legal team in San Diego County. CCS legal services include:Intimate Partner Violence Services (IPVS): IPVS services are provided in East, Central, and North San Diego County. Attorneys provide restraining order assistance every week at the El Cajon Courthouse, and pro per family law as well as at all CCS business office locations, including filling out paperwork, client consultations, and hearing preparation. Legal advocates provide crisis counseling, safety planning, intimate partner violence lethality assessments, court accompaniment, application assistance, information, referrals, and emotional support to victims of intimate partner violence. Advocates utilize their significant community connections to help survivors access safe housing, legal services, counseling, immigration services, food, clothing, and other support services. This free, confidential service is available in English and Spanish, with additional…
$2,184,677 spent54% of program spendingHousing and Advocacy Services (HAS):Intimate Partner Violence Shelters: CCS operates both short-term and long-term confidential intimate partner violence shelters. Project Safe House (PSH) is a short-term, 24-bed intimate partner violence shelter located in East San Diego County, and Hidden Valley House (HVH) is a short-term, 40-bed intimate partnerviolence shelter located in North Inland Region of San Diego County. Both shelters are staffed 24-hours per day by certified intimate partner violence counselors. Intimate partner violence victims and their children are sheltered in these programs for up to two months, based on need. While living in the shelter, they receiveadvocacy, counseling, safety planning, client services, legal assistance, food, clothing, transportation assistance, and other services and resources to help them stabilize and transition to more permanent housing. Next Step is our longer-term confidential intimate partner violence shelter program, where families that needmore time to get on their feet can stay up to eighteen months. Next Step North (NSN) is a long-term shelter consisting of five two-bedroom units and Next Step East (NSE) is one two-bedroom unit.…
$1,481,254 spent36% of program spendingPrevention, Education, and Advocacy Services (PEAS):Healthy Relationships & Violence Prevention Education: CCS is invested in the promotion of healthy relationships and the prevention of sexual and intimate partner violence through interactive, empowering education focused on topics related to the development of healthy relationships skills. For example, healthy communication and conflict resolution skills, consent-and-boundary-setting, and how to challengesocial norms and media messages that perpetuate violence throughout our communities. CCS prevention education programs are available in English and Spanish and are generally provided in schools or other community settings in a developmentally and culturally humble manner. CCS participates in the facilitation of the FACES internship program for youth in Hoover High Schoolfocusing on strengtheningprotective factors and building leadership skills. CCS Athlete Upstander Prevention Education provides healthy relationships and bystander intervention trainings to all incoming first-year student athletes at San Diego State University.Teen Dating Violence Prevention Education (TDV): TDV education programs are delivered in a multi-unit…
$327,988 spent8% of program spendingGeneral Program (PRG): In partnership with Deaf Community Services and San Diego Regional Center, CCS was awarded state and federal funding to deepen each agencys capacity to serve survivors of violence who are Deaf/deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Late-Deafened, or Deaf-Blind, and/or individuals living with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Internally known as Access to Services, CCS has upgraded facilities and enhanced language access throughout the agency to ensure all survivors can equitably access services. Each organization in this collaboration has provided multiple cross-trainings for staff. The intent of the collaboration and trainings is to ensure that each entity has specific understanding of each population, and the capacity to serve high-risk and vulnerable clients who have experienced sexual and intimate partner violence.
$86,220 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,080,139.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.9M to $4.6M (+17%).
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 79% · 2018 80% · 2019 82% · 2020 81% · 2021 74% · 2022 82% · 2023 79% · 2024 79% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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
Cori Manthorne-Austin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $262k → $642k.
13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 20% · 2020 24% · 2021 14% · 2022 18% · 2023 23% — 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
38% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
58% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$3.8M
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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS (California) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,510,807 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($710,091). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $4,510,807 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $710,091 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS 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 82 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