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SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES

SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,648,639 to it, the largest being SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY ($467,802). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.0M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$4.1M
14/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Spectrum Community Services does

Mission

Founded in 1971, Spectrum Community Services is a registered, private non-profit organization that assists low-income and disadvantaged individuals, families and seniors in their efforts to live independently.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The energy program has two components: (1) utility assistance for households experiencing low income by providing credits on energy and/or water bills in alameda county and (2) weatherization for households experiencing low income by providing health, safety, and improved energy efficiency measures in apartments, mobile homes, and houses throughout alameda county.

    $3,723,035 spent
    57% of program spending
  2. Spectrum Community Services provides nutrition programs and services for alameda county residents ages 60 and better including: the senior meals providing fresh, nutritious meals in north, central, and south alameda county - over 110,000 meals per year and meals on wheels (home delivered) serves over 73,000 meals per year in east alameda county.

    $2,530,826 spent$191,277 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  3. Fall prevention program provides education, assessments and exercise classes to assist adults 60 years and better with injury prevention in alameda county.

    $328,901 spent
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,582,762.

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 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 87 ($4.4M) Expenses 96 ($4.7M) Net assets 90 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 107 ($5.4M) Expenses 109 ($5.4M) Net assets 88 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 106 ($5.3M) Expenses 105 ($5.2M) Net assets 92 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 116 ($5.8M) Expenses 115 ($5.7M) Net assets 97 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 125 ($6.3M) Expenses 123 ($6.1M) Net assets 102 ($3.4M)2024 Revenue 127 ($6.4M) Expenses 123 ($6.1M) Net assets 111 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 159 ($8.0M) Expenses 153 ($7.6M) Net assets 124 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (153)Net assets (124)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 $5.8M to $5.1M (−13%).

$3.7M
$3.3M
$3.8M
$4.0M
$4.4M
$5.8M
$5.1M
$5.7M
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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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2023 91% · 2024 86% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$67k
’17
−$348k
’18
−$51k
’19
$149k
’20
$141k
’21
$168k
’23
$312k
’24
$436k
’25
3.9
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.

Chief executive

Lara Calvert

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed99978101011
Joined·+1+0+0+1·+0+3
No longer listed·1020·02
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income fell $410k → $63k.

7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SPECTRUM COMMUNITY 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

SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES.

28%
largest funder
70%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% — 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

36% of SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
MI
MA
NJ
CA
VA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $417k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve3.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SPECTRUM COMMUNITY 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES?
SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,648,639 to it, the largest being SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY ($467,802). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,648,639 in grants to SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECTRUM COMMUNITY SERVICES?
SENIOR ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION EASTBAY is the largest funder on record, with $467,802 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECTRUM COMMUNITY 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 27 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