California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES
COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,717 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $467k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services does
Mission
Resources and Community Advocacy. Serving low income youth and families in the community. Providing culturally competent and sensitivie programing based on based on the needs and resources available in Santa Clara County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
1. YOUTH: In 2025 CARAS provided youth programs offered youth leadership development training facilitated youth-led advocacy efforts and established a youth advocacy council. We successfully supported 6,000 youth throughout the year.
$487,051 spentof which $495,435 as grants$8,384 earned by the program36% of program spending2. ADVOCACY: CARAS excelled in equipping and developing youth advocacy initiatives focused on issues such as school suspensions expulsions and youth arrests. We empowered youth in the areas of social justice equity and racial justice.
$156,372 spentof which $161,805 as grants$5,433 earned by the program11% of program spending3. COMMUNITY AND HOMELESS PREVENTION: CARAS homeless prevention efforts successfully supported 40 families in avoiding eviction by utilizing pass-through funding. We provided 120,000 in rental assistance and deposits to help these families stay in their homes and we provided advocacy and rental housing rights to an additional 432 clients with legal clinics multiple outreach events and other supportive services.
$645,615 spentof which $785,482 as grants$139,868 earned by the program47% of program spendingFundraising activities as Tamale Festival and Cesar Chavez Event
$79,297 spentof which $78,584 as grants$-712 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,368,335.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $117k to $431k (+268%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 74% · 2022 0% · 2023 68% · 2024 34% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Carlos Flores
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $125k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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 AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 74% · 2022 66% · 2023 92% — 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
50% of COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
82% of COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES'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 $85k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $381k 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
COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES: 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 AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES?
- COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,717 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($235,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $466,717 in grants to COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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