California · Nonprofit
SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,548 to it, the largest being Cottonwood Spring ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $742k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $386k
- Net assets
- $564k
What Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living does
Mission
A Santa Cruz Resource center for do-it-yourself, human scale technology and an advocate for livable, interconnected communities. Our projects provide access to space, resources, and educational opportunities through demonstration, outreach, and hands on learning. The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living is a decentralized non-hierarchical community network that builds solidarity with and creates safer spaces for communities facing coercive forces, through creative culture, compassion, and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tenant Sanctuary is a Santa Cruz legal aid organization by tenants for tenants. Volunteers work with an attorney to counsel tenants. Tenant Sanctuary served all City of Santa Cruz residents.
$173,466 spent$184,953 earned by the program29% of program spendingIn 2024, California Field School (CFS) provided transformative outdoor experiences for youth through six multi-day educational bike trips, serving approximately 50-60 participants with 23 days of direct programming. We maintained a 100% trip completion rate with zero safety incidents. Our program strengthened community partnerships, expanded collaborations with organizations like Waterside Workshops and Oakland Unified School District, and trained three new Field School leads. Additionally, we improved route options, storage infrastructure, and program logistics. Looking ahead, we are focused on fiscal sustainability through diversified funding, expanding partnerships, and increasing operational efficiency to continue empowering youth through outdoor education.
$163,215 spentof which $91,452 as grants$164,026 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe Bike Church is a community bicycle shop and tool collective where people can learn to repair their bikes with the help of experienced mechanics. In 2025, we focused on rebuilding, hiring new staff, expanding volunteer engagement, and strengthening community programs. We sold over 259 bikes, launched a Donation-Based Lock Program, and partnered with Ecology Action to host bike maintenance workshops. We also reintroduced volunteer nights, bringing in dedicated community members to help with shop maintenance and bike repairs. In 2026, we aim to expand workshops, grow our volunteer base, and continue making bicycle repair accessible to all.
$149,226 spentof which $18,065 as grants$157,273 earned by the program25% of program spendingStatement of Program Service Accomplishments The remaining program services of the Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living include: 1) The Fabrica is a community workspace where people can learn an share knowledge about textile arts. It is a community textile arts and salvage workshop. This includes sewing, knitting, quilting, embroidery, crochet, and bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by participant donations. The Fabrica has sewing machines, generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and other tools and supplies necessary for most sewing and yarn based projects. No one turned away for lack of funds. 2) SubRosa is a collectively run community space, a place to meet others, challenge our assumptions, and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant community for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance art, studying, and more. No one turned away for lack of funds. 3) The Santa Cruz Climate Action Network seeks to address the current climate change emergency, recognizing that failure to act quick will have devastating effects on future generations of humans other life forms. 4) The Welcoming Network accompanies asylum…
$114,457 spentof which $127,361 as grants$260,348 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $600,364.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $399k to $564k (+42%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 18% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 33% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $49k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING’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
SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 26% · 2023 61% — 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 SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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 SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: 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 SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING?
- SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,548 to it, the largest being Cottonwood Spring ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $385,548 in grants to SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING?
- Cottonwood Spring is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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