California · Nonprofit
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,920,369 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($6,480,916). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 186
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Compass Family Services does
Mission
Compass Family Services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Compass sf home - promotes long-term housing stability through housing search assistance, rental subsidies, and case management.
$15,566,226 spentof which $11,768,965 as grants$6,546 earned by the program40% of program spendingCompass brief stays - provides short-term hotel stays to families when shelter is not available or not an option.
$6,140,549 spentof which $5,143,952 as grants16% of program spendingCompass children's center - a nationally accredited enriched early childhood education center with a curriculum focused on the social and emotional development for children ages 05 years that are from homeless and extremely low-income families.
$4,479,408 spentof which $244,858 as grants12% of program spendingCompass family shelter - offers families facing homelessness a safe, temporary place to stay, and offers services designed to help families to secure and maintain permanent housing.compass clara house - an 18 - 24-month transitional housing program where families live in private apartments and receive intensive wrap-around support.compass location services - provides housing search support to families who receive subsidies through compass sf home and housing workshops and support for families who don't qualify for a housing program but are actively homeless or at risk of homelessness.compass behavioral health services - offers confidential emotional support and therapy for families who are experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness, newly housed, or engaged in any compass program.central city access point - entry point for families experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Provides problem solving, assessment of eligibility for shelter and housing programs, and placement into available shelter and housing.compass family resource center - offers a comprehensive set of trauma-informed services that support family well-being, including support groups, housing search and…
$12,327,446 spentof which $2,793,752 as grants32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,513,629.
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 2024 to 2025, from $37M to $43M (+17%).
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 68% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 54% · 2022 61% · 2023 69% · 2024 76% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Chief executive
Erica Kisch
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 78 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.5M.
34 of 186 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 186 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
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 11% · 2021 14% · 2022 38% · 2023 23% — 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
47% of COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
83% of COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASS FAMILY 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Compass Qalicb · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMPASS FAMILY 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 COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES?
- COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 186 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,920,369 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($6,480,916). 110 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 186 organizations giving $37,920,369 in grants to COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES, 110 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES?
- TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $6,480,916 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS FAMILY 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.
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 186 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing