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CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES
CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $786,022 to it, the largest being THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE ($528,561). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $786k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Champions in Service San Fernando Valley and Greater Los Angeles does
Mission
Provide counseling, gang prevention and intervention services, case management, athletic activities, job readiness training and development and other services to disadvantaged youth in the san fernando valley and greater los angeles area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The fiscal year 2024-2025 again was filled with challenges that CIS endeavored to provide street crisis violence intervention intensive services and integrative case management services, to provide positive life changing opportunities, to primarily throughout the San Fernando Valley. Though the report will indicate we have had several accomplishments, the most important aspect of our work was creating hope in our community impacted by violence, the realities of poverty, drug addiction, and gang violence. The following represents a synopsis of the activities through the various that CIS provides:Gang Reduction Youth Development (GRYD)is Now in our 16th year of providing services. Gang intervention services to the San Fernando Valley, in particular, the Foothill and Mission Police Divisions. Our 12 Community Intervention Workers and 5 case managers succeeded in providing our over 372 clients with the following services: one-on-one mentoring,court advocacy, education advocacy, and support, including food and hygiene products, providing resources to keep clients housed and in rehabilitation centers, unemployment through finding job opportunities, trade schools, and paying utilities…
$4,557,887 spent$105,600 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,557,887.
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 2022 to 2023, from $767k to $1.5M (+97%).
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 86% · 2018 88% · 2019 90% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 94% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Javier Nunez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $153k → $15k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
0% of CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
97% of CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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
CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES has grown faster than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $922k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$922k
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 CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES
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
85% 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 CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES: 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 CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES?
- CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $786,022 to it, the largest being THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE ($528,561). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $786,022 in grants to CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES?
- THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE is the largest funder on record, with $528,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPIONS IN SERVICE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AND GREATER LOS ANGELES 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