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HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY

HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,371 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($197,955). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.1M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$803k
Net assets
$4.0M
7/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County does

Mission

The mission of Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County (his-oc) provides housing and supportive services to families, transitional-aged youth, and seniors experiencing homelessness. Through our emergency shelter (family carecenter), we provide safe housing, meals, and case management for families serving over 250 individuals annually, 85% of whom are children. Our transitional housing program offers up to 12 months of stability with counseling, workforce training, and financial literacy support, helping participants secure permanent housing and independence. His-oc's street outreach and navigation services connect more than 1,000 unsheltered individuals each year to vital resources, including medi-cal calaim community supports and housing placements. Together, these programs empower vulnerable populations to rebuild their lives through housing, healing, and hope.

    $4,211,344 spent$10,150 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. Charity's closet, a thrift store, supports the organization. It provided roughly 6.6% of the organization's total revenues during the year ended december 31, 2025.

    $507,493 spent$387,587 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,718,837.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($868k) Expenses 100 ($956k) Net assets 100 ($553k)2021 Revenue 126 ($1.1M) Expenses 110 ($1.1M) Net assets 123 ($681k)2022 Revenue 127 ($1.1M) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 113 ($623k)2023 Revenue 165 ($1.4M) Expenses 154 ($1.5M) Net assets 121 ($670k)2024 Revenue 813 ($7.1M) Expenses 391 ($3.7M) Net assets 721 ($4.0M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (813)Expenses (391)Net assets (721)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $4.4M (+280%).

$775k
$840k
$898k
$1.2M
$4.4M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 49% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 37% · 2024 83%. 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$88k
’20
$40k
’21
−$135k
’22
−$44k
’23
$3.3M
’24
4.1
months of
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

Christine Stellino

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed1315161513
Joined·+6+10+1+3
No longer listed·4925
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $50k → $165k.

10 of 25 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 HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE 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

HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

69% 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 HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY.

25%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 61% · 2023 30% — 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

44% of HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

76% of HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
MN
NY
CA
VA
DE
AZ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 7%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY?
HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,371 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($197,955). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $803,371 in grants to HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE COUNTY?
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOMELESS INTERVENTION SERVICES OF ORANGE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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