California · Nonprofit
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR (California) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,487,927 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($6,088,829). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Puente de la Costa Sur does
Mission
To operate as a community resource center for the communities of pescadero, la honda, loma mar and san gregorio; providing a single point of entry for access to services including health and wellness, safety net, leadership development, literacy programs, parenting education and support, job referral and community activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community development program by providing safety net services for local agricultural workers and low-income families. This includes basic needs such as food, clothing, rental assistance, immigration services, translation assistance, social services referral, and advocacy.
$1,325,314 spentof which $6,300 as grants$78,383 earned by the program32% of program spendingCommunity health and wellness by providing community mental health and educational workshops, enrollment in health programs, community health promoters outreach, dental services, and transportation to medical appointments.
$1,626,840 spentof which $2,469 as grants39% of program spendingEducation programs by encouraging leadership development, providing programs for families with children 0-5 years old, providing summer youth internships, and awarding scholarships for post secondary education.
$849,154 spentof which $156,820 as grants20% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$392,969 spentof which $4,000 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,194,277.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.7M to $9.2M (+39%).
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 35% · 2018 26% · 2019 26% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% · 2024 17% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Rita Mancera Hernandez
Executive director
Board chair
Gabriel Garcia
Chair
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 22 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.4M.
28 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR 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
73% 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 PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 34% · 2019 50% · 2020 19% · 2021 35% · 2022 45% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
66% of PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR'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 $9.0M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: 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 PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR?
- PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR (California) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,487,927 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($6,088,829). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $26,487,927 in grants to PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,088,829 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR 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 86 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