California · Nonprofit
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,034,334 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,627,600). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto does
Mission
Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership and advocacy
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental justice program - we're proud to be leading an environmental justice initiative that extends beyond our local communities to encompass broader san mateo county. Nuestra casa advocates, informs, and trains members of our frontline community to become environmental justice leaders. By teaching and unlocking our community's leadership potential, they can prioritize local solutions for addressing environmental equity and justice issues. We believe our community can do more than survive but thrive in this climate reality. Our programming in this area includes our environmental justice academy and water justice initiative, community engagement efforts that connect residents to government processes, and participation in numerous collaborative efforts in south san mateo county, such as the safer bay project and the palo alto horizontal levee project.
$557,260 spent47% of program spendingRed comunitaria program - our red comunitaria program trains, supports, and coaches local women to take ownership of their neighborhood and become promotoras (community outreach workers). These passionate leaders are parents and trusted messengers in our community who care deeply about justice and equity. They organize neighbors, facilitate workshops, and guide our programmatic priorities. We regularly train promotoras to build upon their leadership, advocacy, outreach skills, and knowledge of community resources and initiatives. Our promotora program is a core component of the libre project, a collaborative that plays a pivotal role in helping our immigrant community understand and navigate an array of safety net services. As the first point of contact for thousands of local immigrant families, our promotoras educate families with questions about benefits. They connect individuals to a nuestra casa assistor or one of our partners for legal assistance or aid in applying for benefits.
$480,421 spent41% of program spendingPolicy/advocacy program - our policy & advocacy work involves co-learning about issues that affect our community with our community, prioritizing the issues that matter most to them, and identifying and advocating for solutions. These efforts include building community members capacity to confidently participate in government processes that affect their neighborhoods and families. As part of this work, our staff members collaborate with other organizations, lead important efforts, and achieve wins for our community.
$86,952 spent7% of program spendingHousing justice
$55,032 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,179,665.
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 $780k to $1.4M (+83%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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 4 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $201k → $1.4M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
72% 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 Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 82% · 2019 75% · 2020 60% · 2021 48% · 2022 34% · 2023 21% — 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
53% of Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
59% of Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto'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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $126k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$126k
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 Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto
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
68% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto: 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 Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto?
- Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,034,334 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,627,600). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $7,034,334 in grants to Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,627,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto 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 38 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