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COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM

COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,508 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($595,641). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$402k
16/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Community Against Sexual Harm does

Mission

Our mission is to assist commercially sexually exploited women through survivor-led peer support and harm reduction and health services, while providing education about the harm inflicted on women and the community.we believe in strengthening women, families, and communities impacted by sexual exploitation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Through a partnership with the sacramento regional family justice center, cash provides assistance to victims of human trafficking with funding from the california governor's office of emergency services human trafficking victim services branch. Cash provides case management, legal services, street and online outreach, peer mentoring and drop-in services. In 2024, cash reached 2,157 individuals through outreach, homeless encampment visits and online engagement.

    $264,411 spent
    17% of program spending
  2. The anti-trafficking and v.o.c.a. Programs are comprehensive programs that helped victims of sex trafficking access safe housing, medical and mental health care, employment and legal services as they stabilized their life. All participants receive case management services from a survivor advocate. 43 women secured stable housing.

    $238,113 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. Funding from the department of justice made it possible to develop valuable evaluation and data collection tools to track survivors of trafficking and their outcomes. Funding allowed the creation of a survivor advisory council and support materials, review of case management tiles, examine covid and sex trafficking, monitor data collection, analyze data sets, and provide recommendations for best practices.

    $218,345 spent
    14% of program spending
  4. The partnership with the cares foundation, one community health, and harm reduction services conducted 163 hiv tests to support early detection and prevention. Upon first interaction with cash, only 21% of women know their hiv status. Cash's goal is for 100% of clients to know their hiv status.with funding from the department of justice office for victims of crime, cash was able to implement a comprehensive services for survivors program to develop the capacity of cash to provide evidence-based programming to survivors of sex and labor trafficking in the sacramento region. Funding supported creatingoperating standards and protocols for a survivor-led model and created a community of practice to improve the region's ability to identify survivors and develop a crisis response program.the organization's center for women in sacramento, california, offers individual peer mentoring, case management, street outreach, wrap around services, and education to the community about the personal and social consequences of commercial sexual exploitation. In 2024, the center served approximately 545 women during drop-in hours. Cash served 5,533 meals to women and children and distributed 1,394…

    $796,801 spent
    53% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,517,670.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($318k) Expenses 100 ($306k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 134 ($426k) Expenses 130 ($398k) Net assets 141 ($96k)2019 Revenue 185 ($588k) Expenses 168 ($512k) Net assets 252 ($172k)2020 Revenue 290 ($924k) Expenses 280 ($857k) Net assets 350 ($239k)2021 Revenue 354 ($1.1M) Expenses 350 ($1.1M) Net assets 434 ($296k)2022 Revenue 412 ($1.3M) Expenses 412 ($1.3M) Net assets 508 ($346k)2023 Revenue 385 ($1.2M) Expenses 397 ($1.2M) Net assets 527 ($359k)2024 Revenue 515 ($1.6M) Expenses 522 ($1.6M) Net assets 589 ($402k)
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Revenue (515)Expenses (522)Net assets (589)Peer revenue range

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 $126k to $365k (+191%).

$204k
$126k
$365k
$491k
$553k
$719k
$636k
$579k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 26% · 2019 42% · 2020 58% · 2021 66% · 2022 80% · 2023 62% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$28k
’18
$76k
’19
$67k
’20
$57k
’21
$50k
’22
$13k
’23
$43k
’24
2.1
months of
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

Swan Vaden

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed888879910
Joined·+0+2+2+1+4+3+4
No longer listed·0222233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $170k → $145k.

4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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

COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM.

45%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 71% · 2019 58% · 2020 49% · 2021 39% · 2022 43% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.

“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

64% of COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

NV
CA
CO
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $440k on record.

Federal$440k
grants $440kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$440k

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 COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM: 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 COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM?
COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,330,508 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($595,641). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,330,508 in grants to COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM?
DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $595,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY AGAINST SEXUAL HARM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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