California · Nonprofit
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,114 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $775k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $353k
- Net assets
- $528k
What Shoreline Community Services does
Mission
We seek to create a thriving, safe, & welcoming neighborhood for everyone. The current focus is to address the needs of unsheltered individuals/families in the central beach area via the compass station, community care crew, volunteer outreach, & medical respite.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community care crew - launched in july 2023 to provide meaningful, transitional employment opportunities to individuals experiencing homelessness. The program helps them build job skills, gain work experience, and move toward stable housing. Crew members do street cleaning and janitorial work in the central beach area under guidance of dedicated crew coordinators. Participants receive one on one support from a dedicated case manager, focusing on skill development, goal settings, and career counseling in partnership with the san diego workforce partnership. The program follows a tiered structure allowing crew members to progress, unlock new opportunities, and access key benefits like temporary housing upon reaching their milestones. The ccc operates as a social enterprise, engaging local business, local organizations, faith communities as customers, reinforcing our model of community driven impact. In 2025, crew members worked nearly 5,000 hours, and generated $180,428 in revenue through 13 contracts. Case managers and crew coordinators worked directly with crew members for nearly 2800 hours. In 2025, we received generous grants from the county of san diego reinvestment program,…
$272,026 spentof which $19,531 as grants$180,128 earned by the program57% of program spendingCompass station - a drop-in resource center for our unhoused neighbors to receive the services they need to begin their journey off the street. Our aim is to connect individuals with resources and services such as housing, benefits, and healthcare services. We provide funds for family reunifications and bus passes for medical, legal, and employment appointments. Additionally, it provides a place for laundry, mail, device charging, computer use to search for jobs and housing, and volunteer nurses. In 2025, the compass station had 13,430 visits, of which 519 were new intakes. We recovered 338 documents, did 1,613 loads of laundry, had 349 new mail sign-ups, had 573 nurse visits, 744 acupuncture/naturopath appointments, 85 dental appointments, connected 126 guests to benefits, 282 to housing, 223 to mental health and substance use resources, and provided 455 bus passes.
$174,869 spentof which $63,499 as grants37% of program spendingVolunteer community outreach team - through our volunteer community outreach team, trained volunteers meet unsheltered individuals where they are, building relationships, trust, and support, as well as offering connections to the resources and services they need. In 2025, outreach team members made 1,022 connections. These meaningful engagements have resulted in people connecting with medical assistance, document recovery, substance use and mental health services, housing/shelter assistance, and employment.
$21,739 spentof which $3,512 as grants5% of program spendingAll other - the medical respite hotel program: assists medically fragile individuals who are released from a hospital stay or emergency room incident. They are given time to recover in a hotel room instead of being returned to the streets. They are offered supportive services through our community partners to ensure their individual needs are assessed and addressed.
$6,950 spentof which $1,173 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $475,584.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $221k to $410k (+85%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 14% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Caryn Blanton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $936 → $91k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 36% · 2023 28% — 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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 48% 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
84% of SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,114 to it, the largest being LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $353,114 in grants to SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHORELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 21 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