California · Nonprofit
VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE
VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,316 to it, the largest being VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($97,816). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Ventura County Civic Alliance does
Mission
The Ventura County Civic Alliance is a unique regional collaborative representing a balanced mix of Economic, Environmental, and Social Equity perspectives. Our mission is to work together to promote a healthy and sustainable future for Ventura County. The Alliance holds a set of core beliefs that guides its mission: regional stewardship, open dialogue, collaboration, evenhandedness, unbiased research and community building and decision making by consensus. We bring together residents and civic organizations to cooperatively explore options and find integrated solutions to the complex economic, environmental and social challenges of our region.To accomplish these purposes, the corporation may receive, hold and disburse gifts, bequests, devises and other funds and may own and maintain or lease suitable real estate and buildings, and any personal property which is deemed necessary for these purposes; and to enter into, make and perform and carry out contracts of any kind for any lawful p
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, the Ventura County Civic Alliance produced the biennial State of the Region Report (SOTR) which examines key regional indicators within 10 domains. These include Agriculture, Education, Economy, Land Use & Housing, Public Safety, Social Services and Transportation. This report is distributed to thousands of community, business, education and political leaders within Ventura County to inform their decision-making.The Ventura County Civic Alliance raised funds, researched and published the 2025 State of the Region report. Board members volunteered hundreds of hours and additional resources were contracted to write and edit the report. The report was initially released at a large community event with over 230 people then distributed via board member presentations to city councils, public service organizations and many others.
$65,476 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,476.
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 2018 to 2019, from $260k to $69k (−74%).
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.
6% of VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
David Maron
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,355 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,355 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE
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.
Public support
100%
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 VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE: 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 VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE?
- VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,316 to it, the largest being VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($97,816). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,316 in grants to VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE?
- VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VENTURA COUNTY CIVIC ALLIANCE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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