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SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION

SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being LAST MILE SAN DIEGO ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$5.4M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sierra Gardens Housing Foundation does

Mission

The Corporation was organized as a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation to acquire an interest in real property located in Riverside, California and to operate thereon an apartment complex of 190 units

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing and operating 190 rental housing units to low income and moderate income families.

    $1,658,765 spent$2,655,651 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,658,765.

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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 108 ($2.1M) Expenses 107 ($2.0M) Net assets 102 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 111 ($2.2M) Expenses 103 ($1.9M) Net assets 108 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 111 ($2.2M) Expenses 106 ($2.0M) Net assets 112 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 115 ($2.2M) Expenses 112 ($2.1M) Net assets 115 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 116 ($2.3M) Expenses 110 ($2.1M) Net assets 120 ($4.9M)2023 Revenue 128 ($2.5M) Expenses 126 ($2.4M) Net assets 122 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 141 ($2.8M) Expenses 122 ($2.3M) Net assets 133 ($5.4M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (122)Net assets (133)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 2023 to 2024, from $5.7M to $6.0M (+6%).

$5.4M
$5.4M
$5.5M
$5.6M
$5.6M
$5.7M
$5.7M
$6.0M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’17
$100k
’18
$212k
’19
$174k
’20
$130k
’21
$187k
’22
$124k
’23
$447k
’24
16
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.

Board chair

Robert Mcelroy

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve15.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Anaheim Gardens Corporation · exempt
  • Oxford Gardens Community Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION: 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 GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION?
SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being LAST MILE SAN DIEGO ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION?
LAST MILE SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SIERRA GARDENS HOUSING FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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