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Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,911 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($858,834). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$675k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$1.7M
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation does

Mission

The mission: Fostering community through education, Cultural enrichment, health promotion, and personal development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Programs have been created for the residents in the areas of, but not limited to, Food Bank, ESL, Computer, College Preparation, Senior Health and Nutrition, Science, Ballet Folclorico, Danza Azteca, Aerobics, Karate, Mariachi and Drama. Art and Cultural Events are planned and held throughout the year.

    $425,935 spent$24,977 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $425,935.

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 ($229k) Expenses 100 ($214k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 97 ($223k) Expenses 103 ($221k) Net assets 102 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 102 ($233k) Expenses 113 ($240k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 114 ($260k) Expenses 121 ($258k) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 234 ($536k) Expenses 112 ($240k) Net assets 121 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 201 ($460k) Expenses 202 ($432k) Net assets 123 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 216 ($496k) Expenses 188 ($401k) Net assets 130 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 201 ($462k) Expenses 225 ($480k) Net assets 129 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 295 ($675k) Expenses 272 ($581k) Net assets 136 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (295)Expenses (272)Net assets (136)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.6M (+26%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.7M
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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: 2017 3% · 2018 9% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 39% · 2023 13% · 2024 12% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 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.

$15k
’17
$2k
’18
−$7k
’19
$2k
’20
$296k
’21
$27k
’22
$95k
’23
−$19k
’24
$94k
’25
2.8
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.

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Listed556777788
Joined·+0+3+2+2+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·02120000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $180k.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation’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

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

96% 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 Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation.

78%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 95% · 2023 81% — 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

60% of Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

78% of Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation'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 $236k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from California funders.

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CA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $859k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 22%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

52%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation?
Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,911 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($858,834). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,094,911 in grants to Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation?
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $858,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation 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 10 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