California · Nonprofit
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,917 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($893,506). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Sierra Vista Child & Family Services does
Mission
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (SVCFS) is a non-profit community based organization providing services for children, youth, adults, and families since 1972 to over 16,000 children and families yearly. The agency provides an extensive continuum of programs including community-based Family Resource Centers, mental health counseling and consultation, case management, parent education, child abuse prevention and intervention, domestic violence counseling, non-public and public school services, perinatal substance abuse services, and foster care and adoption. SVCFS is located in Stanislaus County with an additional office in Merced County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SVCFS has two teams, one is Intensive Community Support (ICS) and the other is Behavioral Health Services Team (BHST). Both teams provide services based on the Stanislaus County Core Treatment Model (CTM). Services incorporate community collaboration, cultural competence, client/family driven services, a focus on wellness and integrated services. Services provided by ICS approximated 7,343 hours and BHST 5,459 hours. ICS levels of service include core treatment services and are provided in outpatient settings. Clients at this level of care require intensive treatment services weekly. BHST have levels of care to allow clients to progress through the recovery process with support from the mental health treatment team. By integrating levels of care in a team, the client can access higher or lower levels of services, while maintaining the valuable therapeutic relationship within a team that uniquely understands the client's mental health needs.
$3,343,709 spentof which $408,560 as grants$4,333,220 earned by the program20% of program spendingSVCFS operates a non-public school that accepts children diagnosed as severely disturbed who qualify for this level of educational placement. The program provides full academic assessment, specialized curriculum for learning disabilities, vocational education, crisis intervention, an activity program, and family counseling. There is no cost to the families of children in this program. The school district and the Special Education Local Planning Area in which the student resides fund placements in Sierra Vista's Non-Public Schools. The average enrollment during the year was 82 students.
$3,226,785 spentof which $137,803 as grants$3,689,465 earned by the program19% of program spendingSVCFS has consolidated its Short-Term Residential Therapeutic (STRTP) services, closing one home and continuing operations at a single, eight-bed residence serving children ages six to thirteen that struggle in regular foster care or in-home placements. Located in a clean, safe, and family orientated neighborhood in Modesto, California, the home provides a structured and supportive environment staffed by caring, nurturing and highly trained staff. The team is committed to delivering evidence-based therapeutic and behavioral interventions tailored to each child's unique needs. The program's primary goal is to help each child develop the skills necessary for socially appropriate and successful functioning within family, community, and academic settings. Through individualized treatment and consistent support, the program prepares children to transition to a lower level of care as quickly and safely as possible.
$978,886 spentof which $87,742 as grants$1,105,240 earned by the program6% of program spendingSVCFS offers a number of other services. These include First Step Perinatal, Family Reunification, Child Abuse & Domestic Violence Prevention programs, Foster Family Treatment, an Intensive Care Foster Family program, and adoption services as well as various other counseling programs. Sierra Vista has Family Resource Centers operating at 5 locations in Stanislaus County. Funding for the above programs is provided by Behavioral Health and Recovery Services, Community Services Agency, Children's and Families Commission, participant fees, fundraising and donated dollars.
$9,320,888 spent$6,155,893 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,870,268.
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.
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 $13M to $18M (+44%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 26% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 34% · 2024 33% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of Sierra Vista Child & Family Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Andrew Timbie
CEO
Board chair
Danny Price
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $174k → $298k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Vista Child & Family 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
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Vista Child & Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 78% · 2019 79% · 2020 71% · 2021 25% · 2022 58% · 2023 35% — 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
44% of Sierra Vista Child & Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
99% of Sierra Vista Child & Family 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. $297k 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
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Sierra Vista Child & Family Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $913k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$913k
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 Vista Child & Family 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sierra Vista Child & Family 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 Sierra Vista Child & Family Services?
- Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,958,917 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($893,506). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sierra Vista Child & Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,958,917 in grants to Sierra Vista Child & Family Services, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sierra Vista Child & Family Services?
- KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $893,506 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sierra Vista Child & Family 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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