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DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC

DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,035 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($124,513). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$83k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$183k
Net assets
$270k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Disabled Services Advisory Council Inc does

Mission

Established by the city of san diego, ca, the organizations exempt function is to provide low cost recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities and older adults. Support is generated from individual and organization donations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fulfilled the organizations mission by organizing recreational activities and events for disabled individuals and older adults.

    $62,382 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $62,382.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($219k) Net assets 100 ($158k)2018 Revenue 28 ($59k) Expenses 23 ($50k) Net assets 106 ($167k)2019 Revenue 24 ($52k) Expenses 13 ($29k) Net assets 121 ($190k)2020 Revenue 7 ($15k) Expenses 4 ($9k) Net assets 124 ($196k)2021 Revenue 7 ($14k) Expenses 18 ($40k) Net assets 108 ($170k)2022 Revenue 20 ($43k) Expenses 10 ($21k) Net assets 121 ($191k)2023 Revenue 19 ($41k) Expenses 20 ($44k) Net assets 119 ($188k)2024 Revenue 67 ($144k) Expenses 36 ($78k) Net assets 160 ($253k)2025 Revenue 39 ($83k) Expenses 31 ($67k) Net assets 171 ($270k)
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Revenue (39)Expenses (31)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

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 $188k to $253k (+35%).

$158k
$167k
$190k
$196k
$170k
$191k
$188k
$253k
$270k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 51% · 2023 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,152 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
$9k
’18
$23k
’19
$6k
’20
−$26k
’21
$21k
’22
−$4k
’23
$66k
’24
$17k
’25
48
months of
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

Eleanor Tamayo

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed444334667
Joined·+1+4+3+0+1+2+0+2
No longer listed·14400001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $6k.

Funder
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'23
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total
AARPunclassified
$15k
Madcaps Incunclassified
$14k
funders
2
1
1
1
4
1
2
1
1

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC’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

DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC.

68%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 2023 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

77% of DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from California funders.

CA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve48.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

62%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC?
DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,035 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($124,513). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $183,035 in grants to DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC?
SAN DIEGO SENIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $124,513 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISABLED SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL INC 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing