California · Nonprofit
Covia Communities
Covia Communities (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,420 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($274,920). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $276M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $0
What Covia Communities does
Mission
Covia promotes and cultivates healthy communities for positive aging through an innovative continuum that actively supports the whole person.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2021 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Ceasing operations: Covia Communities entered into an agreement on september 14, 2021 to merge into front porch communities and services effective as of april 1, 2022.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Covia Communities (cc) is a pioneering leader in senior care retirement living since 1965. Cc has built, opened, and operates five continuing care communities on a nonprofit and non denominational basis which are licensed by the state of california. The communities offer its residents security and peace of mind which includes: (1) the promise of care for the remainder of the resident's life; (2) independent living with a wide range of resident services; (3) all levels of care on site, including skilled nursing care and physician's visits; and the opportunity to continue living in the community even if the resident has exhausted their financial resources through no fault of their own.
$133,980,008 spentof which $565,625 as grants$132,388,887 earned by the program96% of program spendingFor more than 50 years, covia has been a leading nonprofit provider of housing and services for older adults in the bay area. Our mission is to promote positive aging by cultivating healthy and engaged communities with a continuum of innovative services that actively support the whole person. In addition to providing housing through our 13 communities, 8 of which are affordable communities, covia serves more than 18,000 older adults through our community services division's innovative programs, including: (1) home match shared housing provides economic stability and enhanced wellbeing for older adult home providers who offer rooms in their homes in exchange for additional income, help around the house in return for lower rents, and/or companionship. Currently available in marin county, san francisco (sf), contra costa county, and alameda county (fremont). (2) well connected offers more than 80 weekly activities, classes and support groups through free telephone conference and video calls in english and spanish. (3) social call (sc) is a friendly visiting program that began in sf in 2009. Sc makes thoughtful and precise matches between community volunteers and older adults 1:1 for…
$3,630,819 spentof which $1,835,100 as grants$979,965 earned by the program3% of program spendingCovia Communities provides financial assistance to over 45 residents in its continuing care retirement communities who have exhausted their funds and can no longer afford to pay their monthly service fees. These residents receive partial or full credits of their monthly fees depending on their financial need. In some instances, they also receive a stipend so that they can pay for their medications or health care expenses not otherwise covered by insurance.
$1,929,772 spentof which $1,477,586 as grants$1,595,115 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $139,540,599.
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 2021 to 2022, from $514M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Deborah Proctor
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $76k → $110k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Covia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Covia Communities raised.
From the IRS filings of Covia Communities’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
Covia Communities leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Covia Communities.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 55% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Covia Communities draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k 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.
Organizations like Covia Communities
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
80%
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 18 related entities
- Covia Foundation · exempt
- Covia Affordable Communities · exempt
- Covia Group · exempt
- Presidio Gate Apartments · exempt
- Oak Center Towers · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Covia Communities: 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 Covia Communities?
- Covia Communities (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,420 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($274,920). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Covia Communities have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $409,420 in grants to Covia Communities, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Covia Communities?
- LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $274,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Covia Communities 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 7 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