California · Nonprofit
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,458,347 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($793,675). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What Monument Crisis Center does
Mission
The mission of the center is to provide food, education, assistance and referrals in crisis situations and promote community awareness of needs and available resources. The Monument Crisis Center provides crisis assistance to at-risk and (continued on schedule o...) ...mission statement continuedextremely low income families with a 7-day supply of canned, dry packaged and fresh food. Clients are eligible to come once a month to pick up groceries; regularly attend classes, workshops, and programs; and utilize on-site collaborations and off-site referrals. We offer a friendly, respectful and supportive environment with a knowledgeable, culturally competent and dedicated staff. Our deep involvement in the contra costa community promotes awareness and connectivity, providing meaningful support to our client families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution: for the fiscal year 2024-2025, Monument Crisis Center's food distribution program is the heart of the organization's mission and provides stability for low-income and at-risk individuals and families in contra costa county. During fy24-25, the program served approximately 14,500 unique individuals and approximately 5,200 households annually, distributing thousands of groceries and food boxes providing over one and a half million nutritious meals each year. The program provides perishable and non-perishable food items and allows clients to receive assistance weekly due to continued economic hardship and increased food insecurity.
$2,569,888 spent71% of program spendingResource & referral: Monument Crisis Center's resource & referral program provides information, support, rental assistance support, shelter referrals, low-income housing information, and application assistance for programs including medi-cal, calfresh, and energy assistance. The program also hosts nonprofit partner agencies providing pro bono healthcare, immigration, and legal aid services to thousands of community members throughout contra costa county.
$298,482 spent8% of program spendingYouth enrichment: Monument Crisis Center's youth enrichment program provides educational support, mentoring, tutoring, leadership activities, enrichment programming, and restorative justice services for youth in contra costa county. Programs include after school cafe, mcc teen center, summer camp, and planning for high school & beyond. Activities include tutoring, stem education, cooking, gardening, arts and crafts, leadership development, and supervised enrichment opportunities designed to support academic success and healthy youth development.
$223,930 spent6% of program spendingSenior moments, health and wellness, and community engagement & outreach services: Monument Crisis Center's additional programs include senior moments, health & wellness, and community engagement & outreach services. Senior moments provides wellness checks, nutritious meals, educational presentations, legal aid consultations, exercise, entertainment, and groceries for low-income seniors. Health & wellness provides onsite classes and resources including cooking and nutrition classes, exercise, and community partners providing blood pressure checkups, diabetes screenings, vaccination clinics, and advice from doctors and nurses. Community engagement & outreach coordinates volunteer activities, educational presentations, and community partnerships supporting mcc's broad range of wraparound services. During fy24-25, the organization leveraged approximately 30,000 volunteer hours annually in support of its mission and community programs.
$546,840 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,639,140.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $8.7M (+170%).
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 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 49% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Sandra Scherer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $186k → $818k.
27 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — 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
31% of MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
86% of MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER?
- MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER (California) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,458,347 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($793,675). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $6,458,347 in grants to MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $793,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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