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Discovery Counseling Center

Discovery Counseling Center (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,212 to it, the largest being QUEST FOUNDATION ($360,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.2M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$964k
Net assets
$2.5M
12/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Discovery Counseling Center does

Mission

To provide affordable, high quality, culturally informed and accessible counseling services and programs in addition to offering excellent and highly regarded training for future mental health professionals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mental health counseling Discovery Cousleing Center offers comprehensive, culturally appropriate, affordable and accessible mental wellness services in times of difficulty and life transitions. Discovery Couseling Center offers counseling for; adolescent issues, alcohol and drug recovery, anger management, anxiety, child-life issues, co-dependency, couples, depression, divorce, family issues, grief and loss, LGBTQ+ support, low self esteem, parenting/co-parenting issues and trauma recovery.

    $1,149,012 spent
    61% of program spending
  2. School based counseling and intervention services (SCIP) The primary goal of SCIP is to provide preventiona and mental health services to students of the SRVUSD in an effort to maintain a safe and healthy learning environment for all students. Research has shown that the fostering of resilience in children and youth gives them the capability to deal with difficult situations. In providing a resource for children in their immediate environment, there is an opportunity to respond to their need for support and guidance and to help them develop the necessary skills to solve problems, cope with lifes challenges and to live more effective lives.

    $478,248 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. Thrift Station.

    $241,389 spent$919,716 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,868,649.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($601k)2018 Revenue 112 ($1.7M) Expenses 112 ($1.7M) Net assets 94 ($565k)2019 Revenue 121 ($1.8M) Expenses 116 ($1.8M) Net assets 102 ($614k)2020 Revenue 130 ($1.9M) Expenses 121 ($1.8M) Net assets 119 ($713k)2021 Revenue 136 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($1.7M) Net assets 165 ($990k)2022 Revenue 159 ($2.4M) Expenses 137 ($2.1M) Net assets 205 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 135 ($2.0M) Expenses 128 ($1.9M) Net assets 221 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 146 ($2.2M) Expenses 139 ($2.1M) Net assets 237 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 217 ($3.2M) Expenses 139 ($2.1M) Net assets 423 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (217)Expenses (139)Net assets (423)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $2.5M (+86%).

$718k
$654k
$705k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$3.4M
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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: 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2024 22% · 2025 19%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
−$35k
’18
$41k
’19
$97k
’20
$273k
’21
$286k
’22
$67k
’23
$61k
’24
$1.1M
’25
13
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.

Chief executive

Sumita Bhandari

Executive Director

Board chair

Robert Combs

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed171721192121211921
Joined·+4+7+1+4+2+1+3+3
No longer listed·43322151
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $46k → $102k.

9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Discovery Counseling Center’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

Discovery Counseling Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 Discovery Counseling Center.

37%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 89% · 2019 79% · 2020 68% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 49% — 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

71% of Discovery Counseling Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

75% of Discovery Counseling Center's grant income comes from California funders.

OR
CA
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Discovery Counseling 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Discovery Counseling Center?
Discovery Counseling Center (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,212 to it, the largest being QUEST FOUNDATION ($360,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Discovery Counseling Center have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $964,212 in grants to Discovery Counseling Center, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Discovery Counseling Center?
QUEST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $360,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Discovery Counseling 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 15 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