California · Nonprofit
Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities
Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,501 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities does
Mission
To provide support services through the Head Start Program, the Early Head Start Program, the California State Preschool Program, and the Child Care Food Program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Head Start and Early Head Start - to provide ongoing and improved support services through Head Start/Early Head Start Program model to under-privileged children and their families for the citizens of Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, and Sierra Counties.
$3,544,739 spent68% of program spendingState Preschool - to provide state preschool services to eligible children of Plumas, Lassen, and Modoc Counties.
$1,498,690 spent29% of program spendingChild Care Food Program - to provide food services to eligible children enrolled in the Preschool/Head Start Preschool centers.
$142,395 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,185,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.3M to $2.6M (+101%).
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: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities’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
Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $501 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.
Against its field
Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$35.6M
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 Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities
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
92% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities: 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 Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities?
- Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,501 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,501 in grants to Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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