California · Nonprofit
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,206 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($246,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $971k
- Net assets
- $454k
What Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County does
Mission
Rainbow builds community and promotes well-being among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning and Intersex (LGBTQI+) persons and our allies though social opportunities, health & wellness services, and awareness programs. Rainbow envisions a society that embraces acceptance, safety and equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. As Rainbow transcends its vision from inclusive to expansive, we will be able to more effectively represent by centering and reaching a wider scope of People of Color, intersectional, and marginalized LGBTQI+ identities. We understand that inclusion, which in meaning and implementation, holds and maintains a power differential, whether or not intentionally set.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Since 1995, Rainbow Community Center has offered support and social opportunities to the LGBTQI+ community and its allies. Rainbow offers a broad spectrum of programsthere is a youth program, a senior program, health and wellness services, and support and social groups. Rainbow also provides training and outreach to the larger community to increase awareness and understanding of the LGBTQI+ community. Rainbow is a safe space for people to truly be themselves and to thrive.Previous to moving most of our services and programming virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on any given day, Rainbow was providing in person counseling services on- and offsite at schools, running a busy youth program, offering senior services including a luncheon, providing health and wellness services, facilitating various support groups, leading social activities, conducting HIV testing, facilitating equity training, running a fully stocked food pantry, and offering services to some of our communitys most vulnerable populations. Since March 2020, Rainbow has pivoted to continue to offer all these services meaningfully and intentionally while devising new and adjusted offerings virtually, and some services…
$1,036,918 spent$78,930 earned by the program100% of program spendingYouth Programs Fostering a positive self-identity for all LGBTQI+ youth and young adults ages 11-25, Rainbow offers structured programs, youth mentoring, social activities, and virtual drop-in youth spaces. Our youth programs help address internalized homophobia, promote resilience, and help youth decide when and how to more safely and bravely disclose their gender identities and sexual orientation. Our youth program has proudly offered a variety of activities, including game nights, movie nights, hot topics discussions, quarterly youth dances, field trips, and more. Additionally, Rainbow continues to provide a support group for parents/guardians of Transgender/Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) children ages 11 and younger, while the TGNC children participate in a concurrent activity-based social group, all virtually.
Senior Services Rainbows senior program provides a safe space for LGBTQI+ seniors to gather, socialize, and create a supportive community. LGBTQI+ seniors are more likely than their straight peers to be isolated, so we aim to increase support, help address internalized homophobia and shame, and ensure seniors have access to a supportive network of peers. Activities include senior lunches, social groups, youth/senior events, and social outings.
Social and Support Groups Our social and support groups aim to increase a sense of community amongst the LGBTQI+ population and decrease isolation. Our social and support groups include both professionally facilitated and peer-led support groups, recovery groups, and social and activity groups for people with various identities. We host movie nights, game nights, summer picnics, theater outings, and more.
Health and Wellness Services Our health and wellness services support the creation of a healthy, flourishing, and vibrant LGBTQI+ community in Contra Costa County. Services include Rapid Testing HIV clinics, safer sex information and supplies, and domestic violence information and support services.
Kind Hearts Food Pantry has transitioned to our Supply Train Program The Supply Train Program continues to provide essential services to people living with HIV/AIDS and to LGBTQI+ people over the age of 55. Our weekly Supply Train staff and community volunteers deliver food boxes to the homes of people living with HIV/AIDS and qualifying seniors, and weekly we conduct extensive check in calls with all our seniors, especially those who are sick and cannot leave their homes before sheltering in place. Rainbow is a distribution site for the Senior Food Program, Gleanings Program through the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano Counties. Additionally, our community members work with registered dietitians that prescribe nutritional supplements to our HIV positive clients that are enrolled in the Extra Helpings Program. This program was eliminated in August 2023 due to funding.
Community Mental Health Services Rainbows mental health counseling program aims to increase the resiliency of our community, help stabilize high-risk people with acute mental illness, and help our community thrive. Rainbow provides culturally competent virtual services, such as Individual Therapy, Partners Counseling, and Family Counseling. We also offer coaching sessions for Mental Health professionals on how to work with LGBTQI+ folx.
Houseless Transitional Youth Program (HTYP) This program benefits LGBTQI+ youth and young adults from age 12 to 24 who are experiencing houselessness, have been victims of violence, and are in crisis. Client services offered through HTYP are as follows: temporary housing, by providing youth 18 and up with hotel vouchers,furniture,transportation, relocation funds, food,employment, clothing,medication and lock/ window safety. Offers emergency housing to youth that are homeless, at imminent risk of houselessness, and supports their efforts to locate affordable and sustainable housing, and supportive housing. The program supports the whole person by also providing clinical services, (therapy) youth groups continumn of services by following up with youth after they have achieved permanent housing. A HTYP community member shared, If it wasnt for getting in touch with Rainbow I would have killed myself, to be honest. I wouldnt be alive today. Im truly grateful to them for my lifeto be able to speak, to eat, to have a job, to give back to the community that I love and that Im so passionate about.Thats how Rainbow has changed my life: Im still living. Marie, age 24
HIV Prevention ProgramThis program consists of various types of outreach that include social media promotion, HIV+ support groups, social groups and special events that have a focus on male identified people of color and Spanish speaking communities in Contra Costa County.
Training, Professional Development & CurriculumWe envision a world where LGBTQI+ peoples dignity is honored and respected in every part of the public and private spheres in which they contribute to society and encounter others. Rainbow facilitates responsive, interactive, hands on, minds on, hearts on learning experiences for all of our participants to grow in their understanding and practices. Additionally, we are developing new LGBTQI+ affirming and expansive curriculum sets for purchase. We offer ongoing professional development groups, workshops, panels, and speakers for companies, organizations, schools, groups and individuals. All revenue from training, professional development groups, and curriculum goes towards supporting Rainbow's programs and services in the community.
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,036,918.
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 2023 to 2024, from $948k to $670k (−29%).
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 81% · 2018 81% · 2019 79% · 2020 80% · 2021 79% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% · 2024 79% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $31k → $392k.
13 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
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 Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 39% · 2019 71% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 29% · 2023 63% — 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
40% of Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
95% of Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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 Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County: 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 Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County?
- Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $971,206 to it, the largest being TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ($246,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $971,206 in grants to Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County?
- TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY is the largest funder on record, with $246,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County 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 30 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