California · Nonprofit
Holding Space
Holding Space (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,360 to it, the largest being ANCORE FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Holding Space does
Mission
Provide counseling services for relief of the distressed and underprivileged and to alleviate community deterioration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Therapeutic Services: Through SAMHSA funding, Sacramento County Behavioral Health offers therapeutic services focused on the Black and African American Community with their program entitled, "Trauma-Informed Culturally Responsive Treatment (TICRT) Program." Through TICRT, Holding Space offered culturally informed therapeutic services to members of Sacramento's Black community impacted by mental illness, crisis and trauma. Through the TICRT program, Holding Space provided up to 12 free psychotherapy sessions for those in the Black community who are on Medi-Cal or are uninsured. During our participation on this project, Holding Space offered over 100 free psychotherapy sessions to children, youth, adults and families.
$28,825 spent40% of program spendingCommunity Offerings/Retreats: Central to our work is the belief that compassion heals. Community heals. Culture heals. These components are the medicine that create the conditions for repair and restoration to take place. As a newer organization, our primary mode of offering care to the Black community is through daylong healing retreats that incorporate African centered wisdom traditions and practices such as pouring libations, djembe drumming, African dance, community storytelling, and sharing African psychology principles. These practices are offered alongside mind, body, spirit healing practices, such as mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and sound healing, with the goal of helping to reset and restore overworked nervous systems. In community, we cultivate a sense of safety and belonging by establishing community agreements, attending to the unique needs of community members across identity intersections, and centering joy. During 2024, we held 5 daylong retreats with the following themes: February 2024: Black History Month April 2024: Cultivating an Inner Sanctuary of Stillness and Peace June 2024: Juneteenth August 2024: Living with An Awakened Heart September 2024: Searching…
$43,800 spent60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,625.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
66% of Holding Space’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Laura Hewitt
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $300.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Holding Space’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
Holding Space leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Holding Space draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Holding Space has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Holding Space
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Holding Space: 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 Holding Space?
- Holding Space (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,360 to it, the largest being ANCORE FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Holding Space have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,360 in grants to Holding Space, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Holding Space?
- ANCORE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Holding Space 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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