California · Nonprofit
FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,639 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $395k
What Fairfield Community Services Foundation does
Mission
The Fairfield Community Services Foundation improves the lives of fairfield's underserved youth, families, and seniors by providing the support and services that give hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The food pantry is open 1 day a week, although we provide support to them throughout the year. Open 1 day per week and provided 425 bags of grocery and 350 bages of fresh produce.
$9,596 spentof which $9,596 as grants12% of program spendingAnnual clothes and toy giveaway-partnering with fairfield city fire & police. Donated toys and clothes are delivered to the poorest of fairfield neighborhoods.
$7,913 spentof which $7,913 as grants10% of program spendingAnnual backpack giveaway - backpacks filled with school supplies are given away at a 1-day event in august to youth (and their parents) living in poverty. First saturday in august we gave away 819 backpacks.
$19,769 spentof which $19,769 as grants24% of program spendingThanksgiving meals.senior dinners.summer program for teens.special care services, llc.
$23,872 spentof which $23,872 as grants29% of program spendingAssist-a-grad scholarship fund.
$21,585 spentof which $21,585 as grants26% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $82,735.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $333k to $249k (−25%).
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: 2019 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $45k → $65k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION’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
FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
100% of FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: 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 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,639 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $239,639 in grants to FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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