California · Nonprofit
PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC
PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,242,514 to it, the largest being VENTURES ($1,474,265). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance Inc does
Mission
Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance Inc's mission is to improve the quality of life of the students and families of the pajaro valley by providing health education, counseling and prevention services, and by advocating for public policies that protect the health of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pajaro Valley Prevention & Student Assistance (PVPSA) is a non-profit serving youth and families in the Pajaro Valley. The demographic area of service includes The City of Watsonville, North Monterey County, and Santa Cruz County. PVPSA continues providing school-based support which includes students in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) and Santa Cruz City Schools (SCCS). During fiscal year 2024-2025, our behavioral health team provided direct services either via behavioral health, substance use disorder services, or case management support to 1,151 unduplicated students providing over 19,520 contacts. Other school-based prevention services include cannabis and tobacco/vaping use education presentations in which 2,320 students participated in these presentations. In addition to providing school-based and individual direct services, PVPSA provides family-centered activities and community education through family engagement activities and psycho education presentations. During this fiscal year, we had 443 participants that engaged in at least one family-centered activity or educational workshop. PVPSA also supports families who have food insecurities to obtain access…
$5,404,440 spentof which $13,000 as grants$1,772,730 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,404,440.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.3M to $3.8M (+188%).
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 45% · 2018 54% · 2019 62% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 47% · 2023 59% · 2024 61% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jasmine Najera
CEO
Board chair
Dr Nancy Bilicich
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $95k → $134k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC’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
PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 72% · 2020 53% · 2021 77% · 2022 41% · 2023 37% — 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
25% of PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $741k 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
PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC is better cushioned than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $622k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$622k
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 PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC
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
90% 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 PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC: 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 PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC?
- PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,242,514 to it, the largest being VENTURES ($1,474,265). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,242,514 in grants to PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC?
- VENTURES is the largest funder on record, with $1,474,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAJARO VALLEY PREVENTION AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC 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 16 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