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The Signal Hill Community Foundation

The Signal Hill Community Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SEMPRA FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$134k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$278k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Signal Hill Community Foundation does

Mission

The primary purpose of the Foundation is to support the City of Signal Hill by providing funding through grants, donations and corporate support for charitable, cultural, recreational and educational purposes to benefit the community within the boundaries of the City of Signal Hill.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Signal Hill Community Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that was founded in May 2001. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to support the City of Signal Hill by providing funding through grants, donations, and corporate support for charitable, cultural, recreational, and educational purposes to benefit the community within the boundaries of the city of Signal Hill.2025 Accomplishments Provided 4 live outdoor Concerts to more than 3,000 community members at theSummer Concert Series? Sponsored Library Spring Concerts to 175 people? Gave 828 boxes of food and groceries to the City of Signal Hills FoodDistribution program? Provided $10,000 in Scholarship funding and school supplies to 22 Signal Hillresidents and two local schools? 450 people benefited from the Holiday Outreach program and Santas Workshopevent.? Supported over 700 local pets with low-cost vaccinations and pet programming

    $105,609 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,609.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($53k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($245k)2022 Revenue 172 ($91k) Expenses 159 ($56k) Net assets 114 ($280k)2023 Revenue 224 ($119k) Expenses 294 ($104k) Net assets 121 ($295k)2024 Revenue 175 ($93k) Expenses 375 ($133k) Net assets 104 ($256k)2025 Revenue 252 ($134k) Expenses 316 ($112k) Net assets 114 ($278k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (252)Expenses (316)Net assets (114)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 $295k to $256k (−13%).

$245k
$280k
$295k
$256k
$278k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

81% of The Signal Hill Community Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’21
$35k
’22
$15k
’23
−$39k
’24
$22k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of The Signal Hill Community Foundation’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

100% of The Signal Hill Community Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

The Signal Hill Community Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like The Signal Hill Community Foundation

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

97%

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 The Signal Hill Community Foundation: 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 The Signal Hill Community Foundation?
The Signal Hill Community Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being SEMPRA FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Signal Hill Community Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to The Signal Hill Community Foundation.
Who is the largest funder of The Signal Hill Community Foundation?
SEMPRA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Signal Hill Community Foundation 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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