California · Nonprofit
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE (California) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,664,315 to it, the largest being Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($87,899,866). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 131
- Grants received
- $122M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Sacred Heart Community Service does
Mission
Our mission is to build a community free from poverty by creating hope, opportunity, and action. We provide essential services, work together to improve our lives, organize for justice, and inspire our community to love, serve, and share.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hps network coordinationhomelessness prevention - in partnership with the county of santa clara's office of supportive housing and destination: home, the organization's staff support county-wide homelessness prevention services by coordinating services, training 19 partners, and centralizing administrative work associated with contracting and compliance.
$20,010,244 spentof which $1,602,216 as grants42% of program spendingEssential services:- welcome center - the main registration area for the organization provides resource referrals and information. The welcome center also distributes newborn layettes to expecting parents and offers 4 bus tokens per month for doctor and parole appointments.- food pantry - provides a 3-day supplemental supply of food once per week regardless of zip code. The pantry also provides surplus fruits and vegetables up to once per week as well as bag lunches each day. We provide non-cooking bags for families without cooking facilities. Additionally, the pantry supplies diapers for children under 3 and formula under 1, subject to availability.- clothes closet - provides gently used clothing, blankets, and linens to customers, once per week and distributes survival sack backpacks full of hygiene supplies, underwear, socks, and a blanket to unhoused customers.- la mesa verde - organizes low-income families and master gardeners to build and maintain organic home gardens, enabling them to grow healthy, nutritious food. This initiative includes providing hands-on training, resources, and ongoing support to ensure families can successfully cultivate their gardens. By fostering…
$16,174,787 spentof which $14,309,653 as grants34% of program spendingFamily assistance:family assistance - provides assistance to families and individuals at high risk of losing their housing. The intervention delivers case management coordinated with multi-month rental assistance for secure and appropriate rental housing.
$5,587,496 spentof which $3,485,536 as grants12% of program spendingSelf-sufficiency programsfamily support network: - safe, secure, and loved: resilient families (ssl:rf) - a preventive workshop designed to address child abuse and neglect by empowering parents and caretakers in san jose and gilroy with essential skills to provide sensitive and supportive care to children aged 0-3. The program emphasizes the importance of fostering healthy attachments between children and their caregivers, which is vital for building resilience in young children. Strong attachments not only help children cope with the challenges of poverty but also improve their social, behavioral, and academic outcomes. Through participation in this program, families can potentially reduce their need for future intervention services from schools and child protective services. - english as a second language (esl), parenting classes & early childhood education (ece) - these classes are designed for parents and their children aged 3 to 5 years. The parents of preschoolers program provides parents with valuable insights into various parenting techniques and child development approaches, while also teaching basic english skills essential for effective communication with their child's…
$2,287,256 spentof which $32,938 as grants5% of program spendingEnergy assistance programs: - low-income home energy assistance program - provides assistance to help pay utility bills and avoid energy-related crises for households that are experiencing financial hardship. - water assistance relief - provides payment assistance to help low-income households pay their drinking water and wastewater bills. Since october 2021, the organization has served many households, restored water and wastewater services, prevented disconnections, reduced water bills, and provided water conservation education to santa clara county residents in partnership with santa clara valley water district and the low income water assistance program.
$1,569,672 spentof which $308,363 as grants3% of program spendingPower and organizing - power and organizing - enriches our community by strengthening the voice and presence of low-income community members and their allies in decision-making processes that impact the structural causes of poverty. Through leadership development, research, education, and action, the organization's members directly benefit the communities it serves by identifying and addressing the issues that matter to individuals the most. Since 2009, the organization has leveraged that trust of the community in creative ways to build a grassroots base, program collaborations, and advocacy coalitions. Collective campaigns have led to meaningful victories for affordable housing funding and production, minimum wages, tenant protections, carceral reform, racial equity, and immigrant rights.
$1,161,625 spentof which $360,000 as grants2% of program spendingOrganizational development - data analysis & program improvement - provides for the collection of data on strategic priorities, service provision, and their outcomes for use in analyzing the effectiveness of programs and strategies and informing any modification of services, policies, and procedures as necessary. - training and development - offers a variety of training and professional development opportunities for all personnel to strengthen their knowledge and abilities to fulfill their job duties for the agency to reach its goals and ultimately its mission.
$848,890 spentof which $6,000 as grants2% of program spendingCommunity engagement - community engagement and outreach - conducts popular education classes and outreach events to inform community members about resources available through sacred heart and partner organizations. Activities also include community education regarding poverty and potential solutions in santa clara county. - volunteer office - the volunteer office at sacred heart coordinates and supports the efforts of volunteers who contribute to various community programs. They handle recruitment, training, and scheduling of volunteers to ensure they are effectively matched with tasks that align with their skills and interests. The office plays a crucial role in organizing volunteer events, managing volunteer records, and providing support to both volunteers and the community service staff to maximize the impact of their work.
$502,168 spentof which $904 as grants1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,142,138.
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 $21M to $30M (+45%).
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 21% · 2018 25% · 2019 21% · 2020 14% · 2021 30% · 2022 43% · 2023 20% · 2024 42% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Poncho Jose Guevara
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $4.3M → $18M.
27 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 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
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 70% · 2019 74% · 2020 86% · 2021 72% · 2022 68% · 2023 78% — 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
42% of SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
90% of SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE'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 $12M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110M 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
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE
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
93% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sacred Heart Support Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE (California) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,664,315 to it, the largest being Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($87,899,866). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $121,664,315 in grants to SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $87,899,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 131 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