California · Nonprofit
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,727 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $654k
- Net assets
- $-218885
What Designated Exceptional Services for Independence does
Mission
To teach those with disabilities to live independent lives so they can be their own person, make their own decision and experience the joy of doing so. 1. Provide job training to persons with ID, 2. Conduct a food pantry, 3. Provide job training to youth, 4. provide job training
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
DESI also provides a scholarship, in memory of a late client, to attendees at a local college. DESIs late client attended a local community college for three semesters and was a member of the Disabled Student Cewnter. He had dreams of pursuring a college education and one day having a job where he could support a family of his won. He had a strong commitment to his community and was an active volunteer. This scholarship has been established in his name to honor his memory, and find someone who shares his zeal for life, dedication to their communities, and bettering themselves through continuing their education.
$1,815,674 spent$1,639,836 earned by the program87% of program spendingDESI provides a variety of support services, from simply purchasing household goods so our clients may achieve an independent and healthy lifestyle to purchaing attire and tools needed to seek employment. We also provide nutritious meals, personal items, and toiletries to clients who cannot afford them. Again those items are only readily available thru donations or thru purchases made by DESI employees
$191,410 spent$143,049 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe prevalence of people with developmental and mental disabilities has increased significantly over the past decade. Therefore there is an increasing need for health education and social services and more specialized health services for people with Independence DESI was founded in 2008 by Elizabeth Jinzo. She being the parent of a developmentally disable child quickly came to identify the needs and opportunities available to the non-disabled but of which her daughter was deprived. This challenging and often painful experience inspired a vision in Mrs Jinzo that led her to design the Community integration Component at DESI Especially its specifically individualized approach. Designated Exceptional Services for Independence DESI has been a nonprofit organization that ioffers community integration training to those with developmental disabilities. Community integration is an essential part of living a happy independent and fulfilling life for persons with develpi
$76,869 spent$336,013 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,083,953.
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 $490k to $689k (+41%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Elizabeth Jinzo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $10k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 62% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — 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
17% of DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$85k
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 DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE?
- DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,727 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($300,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $653,727 in grants to DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESIGNATED EXCEPTIONAL SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENCE 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 10 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