California · Nonprofit
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,452,423 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($1,087,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER does
Mission
To alleviate hunger and homelessness in south santa clara county by providing food, housing and employment related services, and advocating for system changes to improve the quality of life for the most vulnerable people in the communities served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Emergency services---served 48,000 individuals through the food pantry program; served 94,000 individuals with weekly produce mobile; provided support services and housed approximately 30 clients in the "our new place" program for chronically homeless individuals with disabling conditions; implemented new gilroy sobrato apartments program serving 25 chronically homeless individuals; served 43,000 lunches to the homeless and unhoused; developed a transit assistance program with santa clara county to serve up to 75 individuals monthly; provided emergency utility assistance to 31 households; helped 100 families avoid homelessness by providing rental assistance to acquire permanent housing or avoid eviction; provided nutritious, traditional food baskets to 675 families for both the thanksgiving and christmas holidays; distributed 200 clothing vouchers and baby layettes to very low-income and homeless/un-housed individuals; distributed gas vouchers and bus transit tokens to more than 300 individuals.
$11,244,577 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,244,577.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $2.7M (+37%).
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 15% · 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% · 2024 17% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Kurt Michielssen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $321k → $636k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 49% · 2020 24% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 191 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 191 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$9.7M
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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER
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
98% 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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER: 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 SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER?
- SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,452,423 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($1,087,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $4,452,423 in grants to SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER?
- SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $1,087,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER 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 33 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