California · Nonprofit
VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE
VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,112 to it, the largest being The Brian D Stevens Foundation ($125,438). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $522k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Van Ness Recovery House does
Mission
To provide opportunities to the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender and heterosexual communities. Services, in english and spanish, provide residents housing and education while assisting through the 12-step program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Van Ness Recovery House is a licensed and certified alcohol and drug recovery home designed to provide recovery opportunities to the gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. The recovery program is four to six months and provides residents with a graduated path back to employment or volunteer work in a safe and independent living environment. The program is based on a social model wherein the residents, with structured guidelines and staff direction, are responsible for the ongoing operation of the house. Through an intense 80-hour a week program of 12-step meetings, alcohol and drug education, group, one-on-one sessions, art therapy, social and cultural outings the residents receive direct experience with the 12 steps of recovery. The Van Ness Recovery House provides the residents with ample opportunity to work on issues of internalized homophobia, hiv/aids education and stigma, as well as, the role of ageism, sexism, and classism that play out as people look to reconnect with society. Van ness also is very aggressive in its addressing of internet and chat room hooking up which after lead to relapse of high-risk unhealthy behaviors. All residents are eligible upon completion to…
$1,762,054 spent$34,373 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,762,054.
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.
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 $539k to $896k (+66%).
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 80% · 2018 71% · 2019 94% · 2020 85% · 2021 92% · 2022 81% · 2023 72% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Kathy Watt
Executive director
Board chair
Manny Rodriguez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $14k → $64k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 34% · 2021 90% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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 VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
92% of VAN NESS RECOVERY 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. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like VAN NESS RECOVERY 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAN NESS RECOVERY 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 VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE?
- VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $522,112 to it, the largest being The Brian D Stevens Foundation ($125,438). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $522,112 in grants to VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VAN NESS RECOVERY HOUSE?
- The Brian D Stevens Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAN NESS RECOVERY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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