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Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc

Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,781,566 to it, the largest being California Coverage & Health Initiatives ($3,200,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year. Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$1.5M
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$3.8M
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
5/13 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programStreams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$9k

Recipients

1

Contributions on record

$3.8M

Donors on record

13

Payments out are 0.00x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($539k) Expenses 100 ($663k) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 94 ($506k) Expenses 92 ($608k) Net assets 87 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 119 ($644k) Expenses 112 ($742k) Net assets 90 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 114 ($614k) Expenses 98 ($647k) Net assets 88 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 180 ($968k) Expenses 106 ($705k) Net assets 103 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 401 ($2.2M) Expenses 249 ($1.7M) Net assets 132 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 396 ($2.1M) Expenses 354 ($2.3M) Net assets 109 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 287 ($1.5M) Expenses 256 ($1.7M) Net assets 101 ($1.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (287)Expenses (256)Net assets (101)

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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$124k
’17
−$102k
’18
−$98k
’19
−$33k
’20
$263k
’21
$508k
’22
−$213k
’23
−$148k
’24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $1.5M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Project Lead the Way Incunclassified
$10k
Petsmart Charities Incunclassified
$6k
funders
1
5
6
3
2
5
2
4
1

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc’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.

Where its funders are

99% of Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

IN
CA
DE
AZ

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

’18
’19
’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $383k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 13 funders put you under-funded 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.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc: 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 Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc?
Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,781,566 to it, the largest being California Coverage & Health Initiatives ($3,200,822). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year. Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,781,566 in grants to Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc?
California Coverage & Health Initiatives is the largest funder on record, with $3,200,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Streams in the Desert Foundation Inc DBA High Desert Community Foundation Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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