California · Nonprofit
SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION
SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,190 to it, the largest being Wayne H Towne Family Foundation ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Sierra Meadows Foundation does
Mission
Sierra Meadows Foundation is a nonprofit organization that was created to reach the broader population of California's Central Valley, allowing greater access to mental healthcare for all individuals by providing counseling services for free. Our belief is that individuals struggling with mental health conditions have enough barriers when they are in crisis - we dont want finances to be another. We believe that everyone deserves health and wellbeing and our mission is to remove barriers to accessing mental healthcare.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Program 1 - Birdie Lou Counseling Center Program activities include employing a team of three Clinical Supervisors (LMFT and LCSW) who supervise a team of 14 therapists in training, providing an average of 10 client sessions per week for a total of approximately 140 free therapy sessions per week.
$313,024 spentof which $371,260 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $313,024.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $57 → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 MEADOWS FOUNDATION’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 MEADOWS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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: 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 MEADOWS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,518 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,518 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION
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
100% 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 MEADOWS 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 MEADOWS FOUNDATION?
- SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,190 to it, the largest being Wayne H Towne Family Foundation ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $95,190 in grants to SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA MEADOWS FOUNDATION?
- Wayne H Towne Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA MEADOWS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 4 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