California · Nonprofit
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,811,017 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ($7,385,572). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Vista Hill Foundation does
Mission
To enhance and improve the quality of life for families and individuals of all ages, by providing an array of mental/behavioral health, educational and social services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stein Education CenterThe Stein Education Center provides educational, social, and training programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities, which include autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and other neurological conditions.
$11,160,164 spent$13,501,977 earned by the program34% of program spendingDonald K. Allen ParentCare Family Recovery Center (ParentCare)ParentCare provides treatment and care case management programs primarily focused on women (perinatal or peripartum) with substance use disorders and/or co-occurring behavioral health diagnoses. Programs include ParentCare East and Central, Perinatal Case Management, Dependency Drug Court, CalWORKS, Accessible Depression & Anxiety Peripartum Treatment (ADAPT) and child care.
$6,783,905 spent$7,286,226 earned by the program21% of program spendingLearning Assistance Center (LAC)LAC provides school-based mental health treatment to MediCal eligible students that are identified as having psychiatric conditions that interfere with educational progress. LAC clinicians, psychiatrists conduct assessment, case management, and treatment with students and families in coordination with school personnel.
$4,163,942 spent$4,764,401 earned by the program13% of program spendingSmart Care Integrated Behavioral Health (Smart Care)Smart Care partners with community health clinics regionally located including Ramona, Julian, Pauma Valley. The Smart Care team of consultants, educators and therapists also work closely with primary care providers at the community health clinics to provide behavioral health screening, evaluation, medication consultation and short-term therapy. Additionally, the SmartCare Behavioral Health Consultation Services (BHCS) provides real time access to psychiatric/behavioral health treatmentconsultation for primary care providers and for providers and designated clinical staff treating pediatric patients. The goal of these programs are to provide support in managing behavioral health concerns for their patients.Promote! - The Promote! program offers school age prevention and early intervention services in partnership with elementary school districts. Services include a universal, social-emotional, evidencebased/informed prevention practices as well as screening, early identification and early mental health wellness and social-emotional intervention with at-risk children in preschool through third grade at target schools.
$4,004,890 spent$4,418,152 earned by the program12% of program spendingMental Health Contracts (MHC)MHC provides school-based mental health treatment to special education students identified by partnering school districts under contract. Services include outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient programs, behavior management and psychiatric consultation.
$2,654,639 spent$3,000,079 earned by the program8% of program spendingBridgesBridges provides prevention, early intervention, case management and treatment services to youth and adults with substance use disorders and behavioral health diagnoses. Programs include Substance Abuse Services (probation youth), Bridges Teen Treatment & Recovery Center (adolescents), Bridges Regional Recovery Center (adult co-ed), SAFIR and On-Track.
$1,841,707 spent$1,594,499 earned by the program6% of program spendingCenter for Child & Youth PsychiatryThe Center for Child & Youth Psychiatry provides a range of outpatient diagnostic and treatment services for children adolescents and young adults.
$1,647,590 spent$1,814,159 earned by the program5% of program spendingVista Hill ApartmentsThe Vista Hill Apartments provides for lower cost or subsidized housing to at-risk families undergoing treatment, primarily through ParentCare.
$376,729 spent$377,387 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,633,566.
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 2022 to 2023, from $33M to $41M (+25%).
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.
4% of VISTA HILL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Robert Dean
CEO & president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.2M.
10 of 54 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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 87% · 2019 44% · 2020 60% · 2021 32% · 2022 47% · 2023 59% — 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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
96% of VISTA HILL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
VISTA HILL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding VISTA HILL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
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
- Friends of Vista Hill Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISTA HILL 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 VISTA HILL FOUNDATION?
- VISTA HILL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,811,017 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ($7,385,572). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISTA HILL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $13,811,017 in grants to VISTA HILL FOUNDATION, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISTA HILL FOUNDATION?
- FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,385,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISTA HILL 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.
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 54 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