California · Nonprofit
Community Violence Solutions
Community Violence Solutions (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,318 to it, the largest being PINPOINT FOUNDATION ($331,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Community Violence Solutions does
Mission
CVS is dedicated to working to end sexual assault and family violence through prevention, crisis services, and treatment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe 4 Us is a child visitation and exchange center for court ordered visits between children and their parents who are under restraining orders from one another following an incident of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or child abuse.
$1,595,628 spent45% of program spendingRape Crisis Center operates the 24 hour crisis interventioin hotline and crisis center and responds to more than 1,300 requests for help each year. Staff and volunteers are on call to provide support on a 24/7 basis. The Sexual Assault Response Team provides leadership to a multidisciplinary team of responders - collaborating with a pool of specially trained, on-call, sexual assault nurse examiners who respond to the immediate medical needs of victims.
$1,484,076 spent42% of program spendingChildrens Interview Center is a safe place where children are brought by law enforcement for a forensic interview in order to determine if they victims of sexual abuse. The center is a collaborative effort inclluding the County EHS department, Health Services Dept, District Attorneys office and law enforcement.
$438,407 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,518,111.
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 $2.0M to $3.1M (+57%).
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: 2018 91% · 2019 96% · 2020 95% · 2021 96% · 2022 93% · 2023 91% · 2024 93% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Community Violence Solutions’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Cynthia Peterson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $80k → $66k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Violence Solutions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 15 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 Violence Solutions leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
34% 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 Violence Solutions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 80% · 2019 70% · 2020 80% · 2021 42% · 2022 100% · 2023 61% — 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
22% of Community Violence Solutions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
100% of Community Violence Solutions's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.
Against its field
Community Violence Solutions runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Community Violence Solutions receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.8M
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 Violence Solutions
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 Violence Solutions: 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 Violence Solutions?
- Community Violence Solutions (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,318 to it, the largest being PINPOINT FOUNDATION ($331,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Violence Solutions have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $511,318 in grants to Community Violence Solutions, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Violence Solutions?
- PINPOINT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $331,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Violence Solutions 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 15 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