California · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,021 to it, the largest being VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($520,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Economic Development Collaborative- Ventura County does
Mission
The EDC creates empowered business owners, connected community partners and informed civic leaders in the greater Ventura and Santa Barbara County region. Established in 1996, we are a 501(c)3 non-profit public/private partnership corporation, dedicated to growing the regions economy. Our vision is for stewarding a strong and healthy Ventura and Santa Barbara regional economy with a high quality of life and broadly shared opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County (EDC-VC) is a public/privatepartnership that provides businesses with professional consulting, training and lending services to help business thrive and add jobs. For 2024:"Continuing to serve as fiscal agent and co-convener of Uplift Central Coast. Shaping an equitable recovery from COVID-19, this partnership draws us into dialogue with all manner of stakeholders across the Central Coast. That dialogue provides guidance to our current distribution of $9 million in state "Catalyst" grants to promote an equitable regional economic recovery. "Our Ventura County Digital Upskilling Training Program continues on two main fronts: a partnership with the Ventura County Adult Schools Consortium, for computer basics training, and a "Get Your Small Business Online" curriculum for entrepreneurs and small business owners, in collaboration with Women's Economic Ventures. This Digital Upskilling initiative is a pilot project with online replication toolkits available to other workforce and economic development training organizations."Our collaboration and participation in FATHOMWERX continues, in partnership with commands at Navy Base Ventura…
$8,117,761 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,117,761.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7.0M to $14M (+96%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 57% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 30% · 2023 42% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Bruce Stenslie
President & CEO
Board chair
Kristin Decas
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $285k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $67k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY raised.
From the IRS filings of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY’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
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY'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 $90k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $705k 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
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Commerce$2.7M
- Department of Defense$344k
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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY: 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY?
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,021 to it, the largest being VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($520,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $795,021 in grants to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY?
- VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COLLABORATIVE- VENTURA COUNTY 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 5 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