California · Nonprofit
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,121 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($131,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $732k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $352k
What One Community Action of Santa Maria Valley does
Mission
One Community Action (OCA) is a culturally responsive organization dedicated to empowering youth and the broader community through holistic, community-driven initiatives. As a racial justice organization, OCA is committed to collective action, trauma reduction, and advancing equitable opportunities. Since its establishment in 2016, OCA has focused on developing community-centered solutions that address systemic inequities underlying violence and community trauma, with primary program areas in Community Building, Youth Development, and Advocacy.OCA emerged as a direct community response to a significant increase in violent deaths in 2015 and 2016, many of which involved local youth. In reaction, community membersincluding parents, teens, young adults, and residents of Santa Maria and Guadalupeconvened to discuss the root causes of this violence and to identify solutions informed by lived experience. These community dialogues highlighted a deep understanding of local culture, gang dynami
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization received nine grants, along with various miscellaneous contributions, to support the implementation of program activities aligned with its exempt purpose. Program service accomplishments included initiatives designed to provide holistic support to students, with an emphasis on fostering academic achievement and personal development. In addition, the organization administered a Stop the Hate grant dedicated to assisting victims and survivors of hate crimes. Consistent with its mission, the organization also continued its efforts to educate the community and raise awareness regarding racial inequities.
$904,657 spent$716,235 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $904,657.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $511k (+1617%).
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.
99% of ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Raymond Segura
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $44k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY’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
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 49% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY
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
98% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY: 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 ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY?
- ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,121 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($131,800). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $293,121 in grants to ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $131,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE COMMUNITY ACTION OF SANTA MARIA VALLEY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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