California · Nonprofit
LUMINA ALLIANCE
LUMINA ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,885,057 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($710,910). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Lumina Alliance does
Mission
To assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Covering client services, therapy and prevention, staff work with community members, youth, and schools throughout the county to address the systemic causes of sexual and intimate partner violence using evidence-based curricula. Programs are trauma-informed, culturally competent, and centered around youth empowerment, community mobilization, cultural norms shifting, and equity.
$3,172,860 spent73% of program spendingOur client-centered transitional housing programs provide transitional housing and shelters for individuals and families who are unsheltered or in need of housing as a result of fleeing intimate partner/domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking. The 6- to 24-month program provides support services to survivors using a client empowerment model. There are 10 transitional housing units located in san luis obispo and grover beach that house survivors and their families for up to 24 months. Transitional housing residents are offered empowerment-focused advocacy, legal services, case management, and therapy.
$1,115,308 spent26% of program spendingOur legal services department offers services and referrals for domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and intimate partner violence survivors. We also provide survivors with a trained, dedicated advocate to help them obtain court-ordered safety through a temporary restraining order (tro). Lumina Alliance staff and volunteers are available to support and accompany survivors to medical exams, law enforcement interviews/meetings, court hearings, and more.
$38,422 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,326,590.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $4.2M to $5.1M (+21%).
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: 2018 52% · 2019 71% · 2020 68% · 2021 67% · 2022 62% · 2023 77% · 2024 80% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LUMINA ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $64k → $419k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $667k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rise San Luis Obispo County). These are real filings, and they are not money LUMINA ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of LUMINA ALLIANCE’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
LUMINA ALLIANCE 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
94% 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 LUMINA ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 58% · 2019 52% · 2020 34% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — 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
57% of LUMINA ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
50% of LUMINA ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LUMINA ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LUMINA ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.3M
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 LUMINA ALLIANCE
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Womens Shelter Endowment Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUMINA ALLIANCE: 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 LUMINA ALLIANCE?
- LUMINA ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,885,057 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($710,910). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUMINA ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,885,057 in grants to LUMINA ALLIANCE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUMINA ALLIANCE?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $710,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUMINA ALLIANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 27 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