California · Nonprofit
HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,558,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,252,020). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Homefirst Services of Santa Clara County does
Mission
Homefirst confronts homelessness by cultivating people's potential to get housed and stay housed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Eih-rue ferrari:homefirst, in partnership with the city of san jos, operates the emergency interim housing (eih) program at the rue ferrari site, providing low-barrier, non-congregate temporary housing and supportive services to unhoused adults. The program offers 24/7 on-site operations, including case management, housing navigation, and behavioral health support, within a housing first framework. Through a phased service approach, the program stabilizes participants and assists them in securing and maintaining permanent housing, as part of the city's broader homelessness response system.
Supportive services for veteran families (ssvf):this program is designed to assist low-income veteran families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The program provides rapid rehusing and homelessness prevention services, helping veteran families stabilize their housing situation. Services provided include financial assistance for rent, utilities and security deposits, mediation with landlords to prevent eviction, rapid rehousing assistance in securing permanent housing, case management to help acccess mainstream benefits such as food assistance and employment programs, employment support such as employment search assistance and resume building, and health services such as substance use treatment referrals.
Cold weather shelter-gilroy:homefirst operates the cold weather shelter program in partnership with santa clara county at its gilroy site, providing seasonal, low-barrier emergency shelter and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness during the winter months. The program operates on a referral basis and offers overnight accommodations, meals, hygiene facilities, and case management to help stabilize participants and connect them to housing and supportive services. Designed to protect vulnerable individuals during periods of inclement weather, the program serves as a critical component of the county's emergency shelter system and broader continuum of care.
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$54,486,482 spentof which $5,272,235 as grants$1,980,285 earned by the program100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,486,482.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $25M to $29M (+16%).
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 60% · 2018 70% · 2019 66% · 2020 77% · 2021 88% · 2022 76% · 2023 85% · 2024 86% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $660k → $1.5M.
16 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 37% · 2020 32% · 2021 19% · 2022 33% · 2023 34% — 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
47% of HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
80% of HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49.9M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$49.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$29k
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 HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA 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 HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY?
- HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY (California) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,558,500 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,252,020). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $14,558,500 in grants to HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,252,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA 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.
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 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing