California · Nonprofit
GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL
GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,001,000 to it, the largest being WESTERN HEALTH ADVANTAGE ($914,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council does
Mission
A public-private partnership to retain, attract and create sustainable businesses in six counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The greater sacramento economic council (gsec) was honored as edo of the year by the international economic development council (iedc), winning the most prestigious award in the economic development industry. This year, gsec further expanded its international business engagement with a high-level delegation to south korea, advancing its globalizing greater sacramento initiative to strengthen global business recruitment. The organization also launched a new regional brand and repositioned its own branding, website and logo to celebrate its 10th anniversary. In addition to the edo of the year award, gsec received numerous other accolades, including an iedc gold award for the regional brand campaign, placing #3 in regional best places to work for its size category and the chief performance officer named a regional c-suite award honoree. Gsec continues to lead with innovation and impact, solidifying greater sacramento's position as a globally competitive region.
$4,836,024 spentof which $247,000 as grants$160,118 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,836,024.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $18M (+51%).
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 29% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 11% · 2021 22% · 2022 28% · 2023 42% · 2024 38% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Barry Broome
President & CEO
Board chair
Gary May
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $157k → $180k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $547k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sutter Valley Hospitals). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 43% · 2019 57% · 2020 57% · 2021 67% · 2022 47% · 2023 56% — 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
33% of GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
66% of GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k 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.
Against its field
GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL?
- GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,001,000 to it, the largest being WESTERN HEALTH ADVANTAGE ($914,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,001,000 in grants to GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL?
- WESTERN HEALTH ADVANTAGE is the largest funder on record, with $914,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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