California · Nonprofit
PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES
PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,960,035 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($676,478). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Pajaro Valley Shelter Services does
Mission
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family emergency shelter:40 families, comprised of 46 adults and 66 children experiencing 40 families, experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness in southern santa cruz and northern monterey counties access up to six months of shelter and supportive services at pvss's family emergency shelter, located in downtown watsonville, ca. The shelter is a 5-room/30-bed facility. The program is structured, supportive and drug and alcohol free. The ultimate goal of the shelter program is to successfully exit all participating families into transitional or permanent housing, with the skills, resources and support they need to maintain their employment and housing, plan for their futures, pursue happiness and thrive under a roof of their own. Parents participate in case management meetings at least once a week and set individualized goals for their family. Goals typically include those related to self-care & emotional stability, mental health and substance abuse, employment and education, parenting skills, personal financial management/budgeting/credit repair, savings for move in and housing costs. The family emergency shelter provides annually: 1,500 hours of case…
$696,713 spentof which $16,639 as grants$15,413 earned by the program61% of program spending2-year family transitional housing:26 families consisting of 61 children and 40 adults experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness in southern santa cruz and northern monterey counties access up to 24 months of transitional housing and supportive services. The program is operated in 13 single family homes located in watsonville, ca. The program is structured,supportive and drug and alcohol free. The ultimate goal of the program is to successfully exit all participating families into permanent housing, with the skills, resources and support they need to maintain their employment and housing, plan for their futures, pursue happiness and thrive under a roof of their parents participate in case management meetings bi-weekly and set individualized goals for their family. Goals typically include those related to self-care & emotional stability, mental health and substance abuse, employment and education, parenting skills, personal financial management/budgeting/credit repair, savings for rental housing move-in costs or down payments for home ownership. The 2-year family transitional housing program provides annually: 2,000 hours/yr of case management support; 2,680…
$444,717 spentof which $1,840 as grants$148,009 earned by the program39% of program spendingFamily long term housing:7 low-income and formerly homeless families, consisting of 12 children and 11 adults in southern santa cruz and northern monterey counties access long-term housing and supportive services. The program is operated in 6 single family homes located in watsonville (4) and royal oaks (2), ca. All residents pay 30% of income for rent. 4 of the 6 homes are supported by sec 8 project based vouchers. The goal of the program is to provide non-time limited, affordable housing to families for 5 years or less while they pursue permanent housing they can afford in the community. Residents residing in sec 8 supported homes for 1 year or more may exit and acquire a housing choice voucher that can be used in sec 8 housing of their choosing. Parents participate in case management meetings as needed to pursue personal and family goals related to self-care & emotional stability, mental health and substance abuse, employment and education, parenting skills, personal financial management/budgeting/credit repair, savings for move-in costs or down payments for home ownership.the family long-term housing program provides annually: 1,240 hours/yr of case and program management…
$155,130 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,141,430.
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 $3.9M to $5.0M (+27%).
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 14% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 5% · 2021 17% · 2022 7% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $156k → $685k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SHELTER SERVICES’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 SHELTER SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 SHELTER SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 24% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 31% · 2023 17% — 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
65% of PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
97% of PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES's grant income 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 7 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 SHELTER SERVICES 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
Organizations like PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES?
- PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,960,035 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($676,478). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,960,035 in grants to PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $676,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES 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 29 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