California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC
COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,108,362 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Community Services and Employment Training Inc does
Mission
Cset seeks to strengthen youth, families, and communities through education, employment training, youth development housing, mentoring, community and leadership building, job creation, environmental stewarship and other strategies that support self-reliant families and caring communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workforce development - cset's workforce development department provides adults with accessible pathways to employment, job readiness services, and demand-driven skills attainment, including vocational and work-based training. Through cset, youths gain job readiness and leadership skills, plan for college and careers, and gain valuable experience through work-based learning. Services are targeted to dislocated workers, the disadvantaged, individuals who face barriers to employment and veterans and provide non-traditional career opportunities for women.
$10,772,941 spent34% of program spendingSequoia community corps - cset's sequoia community corps department offers vocational training to youths and young adults in the trades of weatherization, urban forestry, conservation education, and recycling (crv beverage containers, e-waste, used oil, and waste tires). The department also offers paid transitional employment opportunities to underserved adults which helps participants develop valuable work history and employment soft skills. In addition to the services offered to youths and adults, the department also assists local governments, agencies and businesses meet critical community needs such as park development, recycling services, and natural resource conservation in local recreation areas.
$7,854,581 spent25% of program spendingCommunity initiatives - cset's community initiatives department manages a variety of community and economic development programs that promote community visioning, equip community leaders, and strengthen the residential, business, and familial assets of local communities. Programs provided by the department are designed and focused on reducing the causes of poverty through various strategies that unite residents, improve neighborhoods and train youth to be leaders through neighborhood cleanups and beautification projects, elderly assistance, nutrition, mental health resource sharing, parenting skills training, and housing education and assistance. The department also provides valuable resource information and referrals to other agencies.
$6,574,483 spent21% of program spendingCset's energy department offers weatherization services designed to increase the energy efficiency of homes, owned or occupied by low-income residents. The program also provides energy assistance by offering one-time financial assistance to help offset an eligible household's energy costs. Cset's visalia navigation center is a 100-bed, low-barrier facility dedicated to addressing homelessness and designed to guide residents into permanent housing. The center offers temporary living accomodations and a wide range of services through cset-operated programs and partner organizations.
$6,827,156 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,029,161.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $18M to $32M (+77%).
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 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 94% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Mary Alice Escarsega-Fechner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $2.6M.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING 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
COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 60% · 2020 60% · 2021 66% · 2022 80% · 2023 98% — 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
33% of COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
62% of COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING 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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.7M
- Department of Labor$1.3M
- Department of the Treasury$974k
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
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 SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC
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
89% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC?
- COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,108,362 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $4,108,362 in grants to COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING 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 14 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