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STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES

STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,886,094 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($1,251,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$31M
Revenue FY2025
40
Funders on record
$2.9M
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
21/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 99 ($12M) Expenses 102 ($11M) Net assets 101 ($11M)2019 Revenue 110 ($13M) Expenses 110 ($12M) Net assets 106 ($12M)2020 Revenue 264 ($31M) Expenses 197 ($22M) Net assets 179 ($19M)2021 Revenue 215 ($25M) Expenses 202 ($23M) Net assets 219 ($24M)2022 Revenue 203 ($24M) Expenses 202 ($23M) Net assets 197 ($21M)2023 Revenue 191 ($22M) Expenses 223 ($25M) Net assets 178 ($19M)2024 Revenue 235 ($27M) Expenses 239 ($27M) Net assets 188 ($20M)2025 Revenue 265 ($31M) Expenses 265 ($30M) Net assets 199 ($22M)
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Revenue (265)Expenses (265)Net assets (199)Peer revenue range

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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 65% · 2021 87% · 2022 80% · 2023 88% · 2024 83% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$323k
17
$33k
18
$392k
19
$8.4M
20
$2.2M
21
$766k
22
$2.9M
23
$206k
24
$866k
25
1.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $48k → $432k.

7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES.

43%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 57% · 2023 58%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

38% of STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

88% of STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES's grant income comes from California funders.

MN
OR
OH
CT
CA
MO
MD
NC

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 1 related entity

  • Stanford Home LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES: 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 STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES?
STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,886,094 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($1,251,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,886,094 in grants to STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES?
SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $1,251,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing