California · Nonprofit
Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc
Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,889,614 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,504,794). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $-45297
What Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc does
Mission
The Chavez Clubs provide K-12 leadership opportunities to thousands of young people through creative and exciting projects that instill the Clubs mission of inspiring young people to believe in themselves & to know they can make a difference.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Washington DC Educational Tour: Our DC trip sends approximately 44 Club representatives to our the capitol for six days, expense paid tour designed to give students hands-on opportunities to interact with government and history in Washington DC. This is a fast-paced, fun-filled, educational experience in one of the worlds most dynamic cities. The representatives explore Washingtons key institutions and historic sites and are used as interactive classrooms to help them explore the links between history and the rights and responsibilities of citizens today. One of the highlights is a very interactive discussion regarding how to become a Washington, DC intern.
$95,719 spent10% of program spendingFuture Leaders Leadership Project: The Chavistas, as the Club members proudly call themselves, range from third grade through high school. The real leadership activity begins in the weekly Chavista meetings where the Club ten values, including nonviolence, service, and respect are strategically discussed and are matched up to the Club leadership activities. With the guidance of the Club Coordinators, the Chavistas are taught the responsibilities of good government and how to work as a team. Led by the elected Club president, the Chavistas discuss, debate, vote, design, and assign duties to fulfill their projects. After the project is completed, the Club invests time in assessing the project and if the members were accountable and responsible for their assignment. The rigor of these activities will pave the way in guiding these students to a future of responsible, respectful, and participating citizenship.
$475,082 spent51% of program spendingLevel-Up Program:The Chavez Clubs ran a six week after school program serving approximately 100 students in summer, 2023. The program included four hours of classroom workshops daily for four days a week, covering areas like community service, arts and culture, and advocacy. We also took students on three field trips within San Diego, and one field trip to the Cesar Chavez National Monument in Keene, CA.
$54,085 spent6% of program spendingTOLA:An Intership program for high school students. 15 individuals learn valuable leadership and job skills.
$139,154 spent15% of program spendingDocumentary Project: Production of a film covering the history of the United Domestic Workers movement.
$163,240 spent18% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $927,280.
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 2022 to 2023, from $373k to $128k (−66%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 12% · 2024 10% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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
Linda Legerrette
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $149k → $344k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc’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
Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 54% · 2019 45% · 2020 46% · 2021 46% · 2022 21% · 2023 70% — 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 Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
53% of Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc's revenue grew 91% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development 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
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc: 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 Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc?
- Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,889,614 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($1,504,794). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,889,614 in grants to Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cesar Chavez Service Clubs Inc?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,504,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cesar Chavez Service Clubs 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 23 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