California · Nonprofit
CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER
CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,107,094 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($388,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $864k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $454k
What Crime Survivors Inc Dba Crime Survivors Resource Center does
Mission
The mission of crime survivors is to provide hope & healing to victims & survivors of crime through advocacy & the support of resources, information, & empowerment from the critical time after a crime occurs through the challenges & successes of surviving & thriving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healing: overcoming any obstacle in life involves courage, strength and persistence. Surviving a crime is not something that happens overnight. It is a lifetime journey that requires unwavering love, understanding and support. Crime survivors, through its committed team, is that lifetime partner and advocate. By focusing on the positive empowerment of crime victims, this amazing organization transforms the weak into the powerful, the scared into the brave and turns victims into survivors. In order to overcome tragedy you need strength. Crime survivors provides every survivor with a clear path to hope, healing and inevitably strength.
$979,301 spent$910,807 earned by the program100% of program spendingPrevention: the best form of prevention is always education. Crime survivors is one of the leading "victims focused" educators in southern california. Whether it is training law enforcement, testifying in front of legislative committees, or sitting down with the family and support structure of a newly created crime victim, the organization is able to share an unmatched level of knowledge, care and experience. This unique approach creates both awareness and understanding among a broad set of groups and truly sets the stage for not only prevention, but putting the needs of crime victims first.
Awareness: as crime continues to increase in our communities and neighborhoods and victim's resources become harder to come by, the need for awareness and understanding has never been greater. Crime survivors is singularily focused on making sure that our leaders and influencers are not only aware of the needs of victims, but committed to promoting and supporting pro-crime survivor policies and practices throughout the criminal justice system. Advocacy: crime survivors is the one advocacy group that not only understands the needs of crime victims, but more importantly how to translate those needs into real action and results. Through the strength, experience and endless committment of its entire team, crime survivors is breaking through all the red tape and political correctness and changing the way victims are treated in the criminal justice system.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $979,301.
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 2023 to 2024, from $449k to $609k (+36%).
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.
100% of CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
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
Patricia Wenskunas
Founder & CEO
Board chair
Burton Brink
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $113k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 43% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 50% — 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
45% of CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
71% of CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $502k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER?
- CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,107,094 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($388,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,107,094 in grants to CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $388,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER 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 24 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