California · Nonprofit
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES (California) receives grants from 168 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,624,605 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY INC ($2,823,793). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 168
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Union Station Homeless Services does
Mission
We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. We advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs overviewour programs offer a continuum of services that meet the unique needs of vulnerable individuals and families in the san gabriel valley. As we continue to confront the ongoing pandemic and the homeless crisis, we are working diligently to meet the wide-ranging housing, health, and hunger needs of our community. Our approach has four core pillars of services: outreach, interim housing, permanent housing, and community building. These pillars are designed to not only meet peoples immediate needs, but to offer a continuum of services that support their journey from homelessness to housing with long-term stability.outreach: as the designated lead agency for los angeles county's coordinated entry system (ces) for individuals and for families in the san gabriel valley (service planning area 3), union station provides regional coordination of homeless services. In this role, we manage outreach activities, provide specialized coordination of services for survivors of domestic violence, and actively participate in the matching of individuals and families to permanent supportive housing units as they become available. Together with over 130 local partners, we provide street…
$3,138,500 spent9% of program spendingInterim housing (shelter and motel vouchers): union station provides temporary housing for individuals and families at eight sites across pasadena and northeast los angeles. While we quickly work to place them in permanent housing, individuals and families have access to case management, housing navigation, nutritious meals and foods, healthcare, and other supportive services provided in a trauma-informed environment.-the adult center, our oldest existing program built in 1989, has 45 beds for single adults in pasadena in a congregate setting.-the family center offers 14 units for families and can accommodate up to 50 parents and children in a home-like environment in pasadena.-huntington villas and casa luna are two motel conversions offering 99 units in the el sereno community.-the hilda solis iris house, le blanc and hotel heritage are three additional motel conversions in the city of el monte offering a total of 120 new units.we also support families and individuals in need of interim housing with motel vouchers, which offer a private environment that may better meet their needs until they are able to attain permanent housing.permanent housing: our permanent supportive housing…
$7,817,936 spentof which $7,167,325 as grants23% of program spendingCommunity building: at union station, we realize that a roof over someones head is notenough to support their long-term wellbeing. That is why we also specialize in holistic and extended support. Through our employment development services, union station gives individuals the tools to connect to meaningful employment. Participants may receive individualized job search and career development assistance; job placement; interview, transportation, and work clothes assistance; employment retention support; and access to resource rooms with computers and phones. Moreover, built on our belief that a key factor for housing retention and supporting individuals and families as they build community connections and engage with neighbors and friends.given our decades of experience on the frontlines of the homelessness crisis in los angeles county, we know that systemic change is needed to prevent so many of our neighbors from falling into homelessness. Therefore, our lived expertise advisory panel (leap) provides guidance to the organization regarding the types of services we should provide and the advocacy issues we should address, ensuring that the perspectives of those we serve are…
$22,292,973 spent65% of program spendingAll other programs
$1,009,462 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,258,871.
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 $37M to $43M (+15%).
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 64% · 2018 72% · 2019 78% · 2020 70% · 2021 79% · 2022 70% · 2023 80% · 2024 73% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Katherine Lauren Hill
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Charles Thuss
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.3M.
22 of 168 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 168 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
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
56% 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 UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 44% · 2019 23% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 12% · 2023 10% — 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
52% of UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
89% of UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNION STATION HOMELESS 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pacific Housing Alliance · exempt
- 160 Euclid Partners LP Co Union Station Homeless Services · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES?
- UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES (California) receives grants from 168 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,624,605 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY INC ($2,823,793). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 168 organizations giving $20,624,605 in grants to UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,823,793 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION STATION HOMELESS 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 168 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing