California · Nonprofit
TRANSITION HOUSE
TRANSITION HOUSE (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,489,277 to it, the largest being BALAY KO FOUNDATION ($2,102,372). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Transition House does
Mission
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. Capable and motivated families with children are offered life tools and respectful, non-sectarian residential services designed to alleviate poverty and restore self-sufficiency and dignity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family Homeless Shelter and Housing ProgramsTransition House offers shelter, housing and antipoverty services for homeless families with children that come from the greater Santa Barbara area. Our goal is to help families gain the skills and the income they need to return to rental housing and to sustain it. Our programs include:Three-Stage Family Housing Continuum with Support Services. We offer a three-stage housing and services program designed around the needs of each family. The first stage begins with a four to five-month stay at our 70-bed emergency shelter. At the shelter, families recover from crisis, establish realistic income and savings goals with the help of a case manager, find or improve employment income, and come up with a housing plan. Some families that need additional time and wish to participate in continued services may apply for our second stage transitional housing, either at the Firehousea six-month program serving up to six families at a time; or at Balay Ko on Anapamu, which offers up 24 months of housing and services for up to 10 families at a time. Eligible families with very high barriers to stability may apply to our third stage program, HOMES, where…
$3,386,926 spent$602,826 earned by the program87% of program spendingHomeless Childrens Programs. Families in our programs take advantage of our childrens programs. Infants can receive free or subsidized daycare through the onsite licensed Infant Care Center operated by Storyteller. School children participate in evening enrichment programsincluding a literacy program and tutoring help. We offer a teen program focusing on resiliency and future career goals. Our childrens programs aim to break the cycle of generational poverty for children who are at highest risk of becoming homeless as adults.
$331,843 spent8% of program spendingHomelessness Prevention Program: Anti-Poverty Classes. Parents in our programs attend onsite anti-poverty classes, which are also available to people in the community who are at risk of losing their housing. Classes cover topics such as English as a Second Language, employment soft skills, computer skills, and positive parenting. Our computer lab works to address digital inequities families in poverty often experience. The lab provides instruction in both the Microsoft Office and Google suites of programs. Staff also offer one-on-one assistance accessing healthcare, enrolling children for school, searching for employment and housing, and more.
$187,648 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,906,417.
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 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $18M (+28%).
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 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of TRANSITION HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kathleen Baushke
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $540k → $939k.
14 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 TRANSITION HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
TRANSITION HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% 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 TRANSITION HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 22% · 2019 31% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% — 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
54% of TRANSITION HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
74% of TRANSITION HOUSE'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 10 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
TRANSITION HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TRANSITION HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$177k
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 TRANSITION HOUSE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Moms LP · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRANSITION HOUSE: 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 TRANSITION HOUSE?
- TRANSITION HOUSE (California) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,489,277 to it, the largest being BALAY KO FOUNDATION ($2,102,372). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSITION HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $8,489,277 in grants to TRANSITION HOUSE, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSITION HOUSE?
- BALAY KO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,102,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSITION HOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 102 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