California · Nonprofit
SIERRA CHAPLAINCY
SIERRA CHAPLAINCY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,538 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Sierra Chaplaincy does
Mission
To provide Care, Comfort and Hope to first responders and those experiencing a tragedy or tragic event.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Serving First Responders and citizens in the City of Folsom, El Dorado County and Amador County who are dealing with emotional and spiritual trauma by deploying trained Chaplains equipped to provide compassion, information, practical assistance, and safety in time of crisis. This program services the needs of all law enforcement individuals who work in the service areas. It is an ecumenical ministry that responds to the needs of victims, and officers regardless of religion, belief, denominational background, or lack thereof.It responds to the needs the sworn personnel serving in law enforcement, as well as the needs of crime victims, auto fatalities, emergency medical services, suicide victims and other cases. The program has been able to acquire pastors who serve churches in the area to provide a corp. of Reserve Chaplains who respond to these diverse needs and assist the Senior Chaplain when he is not available.
$138,756 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $138,756.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $197k to $248k (+26%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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 held at 2 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CHAPLAINCY’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 CHAPLAINCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SIERRA CHAPLAINCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of SIERRA CHAPLAINCY'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like SIERRA CHAPLAINCY
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.
Public support
96%
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 CHAPLAINCY: 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 CHAPLAINCY?
- SIERRA CHAPLAINCY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,538 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIERRA CHAPLAINCY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,538 in grants to SIERRA CHAPLAINCY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA CHAPLAINCY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA CHAPLAINCY 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 5 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