California · Nonprofit
DECRO CORPORATION
DECRO CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,436 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $879k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Decro Corporation does
Mission
The corporation is to provide affordable, safe and well-maintained housing and services for low-income families and seniors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As of december 31, 2024, the corporation or the corporation's wholly owned entities are the general partner, co-general partner, development general partner and/or limited partner in 24 entities which all operate or intend to operate low-income affordable housing projects. The corporation also provides management services to six california non-profit public benefit corporations that were or are the managing general partner, co-general partner, development general partner or limited partner in entities which operate low-income housing properties. Collectively these entities are all controlled by a common board of directors.
$19,635,068 spent$11,943,087 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,635,068.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.2M to $174M (+1794%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 12% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Christian Von Merkatz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500k → $300k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Decro Epsilon Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money DECRO CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DECRO CORPORATION’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
DECRO CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 DECRO CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of DECRO CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 DECRO CORPORATION
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
89%
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 36 related entities
- Decro Orion LLC · disregarded
- Decro Osborne LLC · disregarded
- Decro Firmin LLC · disregarded
- Decro Brine LLC · disregarded
- Decro Watts LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DECRO CORPORATION: 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 DECRO CORPORATION?
- DECRO CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $879,436 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY INC ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DECRO CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $879,436 in grants to DECRO CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DECRO CORPORATION?
- UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DECRO CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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