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SENDEROS

SENDEROS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,034,848 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($816,410). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$406k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$555k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Senderos does

Mission

Senderos's mission is to create pathways to success with the latino community by sharing cultural arts and by fostering education opportunities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Senderos provides free after-school mexican folkloric dance and traditional music classes for latino youth, as well as supporting academic success and scholarships for higher education.

    $259,901 spent$2,550 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $259,901.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($87k)2018 Revenue 101 ($117k) Expenses 118 ($122k) Net assets 94 ($82k)2019 Revenue 121 ($141k) Expenses 134 ($139k) Net assets 95 ($83k)2020 Revenue 593 ($689k) Expenses 615 ($640k) Net assets 151 ($132k)2021 Revenue 908 ($1.1M) Expenses 882 ($918k) Net assets 308 ($268k)2022 Revenue 268 ($311k) Expenses 206 ($214k) Net assets 419 ($365k)2023 Revenue 348 ($404k) Expenses 241 ($250k) Net assets 595 ($518k)2024 Revenue 310 ($359k) Expenses 384 ($399k) Net assets 549 ($478k)2025 Revenue 350 ($406k) Expenses 316 ($329k) Net assets 638 ($555k)
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Revenue (350)Expenses (316)Net assets (638)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $365k to $522k (+43%).

$87k
$82k
$83k
$132k
$268k
$365k
$522k
$480k
$566k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 44% · 2023 21% · 2024 24% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of SENDEROS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
−$6k
’18
$1k
’19
$49k
’20
$136k
’21
$97k
’22
$153k
’23
−$40k
’24
$77k
’25
20
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed201615181915
Joined·+2+4+4+4+0
No longer listed·65134
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $152k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 SENDEROS’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

SENDEROS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SENDEROS.

79%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 54% — 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

50% of SENDEROS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

83% of SENDEROS'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 $174k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.

NY
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $861k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SENDEROS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve20.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding SENDEROS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
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24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SENDEROS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SENDEROS: 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 SENDEROS?
SENDEROS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,034,848 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ($816,410). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SENDEROS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,034,848 in grants to SENDEROS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SENDEROS?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $816,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SENDEROS 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 9 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