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Vivalon

Vivalon (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,731,859 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($3,958,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
78
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$21M
52/78 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Vivalon does

Mission

Vivalon advances independence, health and quality of life for older adults and people with disabilities. Through a comprehensive, integrated program of active aging services, we provide specialized transportation, nutrition programs, classes and social connection.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Vivalon provides transportation services for elderly and disabled persons throughput Marin, Sonoma and San Francisco Counties. Rides are typically scheduled for medical appointments, shopping, therapy or visits with family and friends.

    $12,133,146 spent$15,794,922 earned by the program
    80% of program spending
  2. Vivalon provides comprehensive nutrition services for older adults in need. The Nutrition Program is comprised of the Meals on Wheels home delivered meal program (3 days a week), Nourish home delivered meal program (3 days a week for those not eligible for Meals on Wheels) a weekly Brown Bag Pantry program in partnership with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank that serves 100 people a week with fresh food, and an on-site cafe open weekdays for lunch. Last year the Meals on Wheels program delivered over 95,000 meals and the Nourish program delivered over 39,000 meals to 450 recipients. The Vivalon Cafe served over 11,000 meals last year. The goal of the Nutrition Program is to provide access to healthy, affordable meal options as well as social connection in a warm and welcoming environment.

    $584,709 spent$474,460 earned by the program
    4% of program spending
  3. The Healthy Aging Center is an information hub that provides referral resources, an array of educational programs, health and wellness classes, social groups, technology classes and a computer lab center, and the Vivalon Cafe mentioned under nutrition programs. The Healthy Aging Center is open 250 days a year and serves over 6,800 individuals. Our average member is 72 years old.

    $2,387,681 spent$557,865 earned by the program
    16% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,105,536.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2018 Revenue 93 ($11M) Expenses 96 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($6.6M)2019 Revenue 103 ($13M) Expenses 106 ($13M) Net assets 103 ($6.7M)2020 Revenue 138 ($17M) Expenses 109 ($13M) Net assets 168 ($11M)2021 Revenue 93 ($12M) Expenses 97 ($11M) Net assets 168 ($11M)2022 Revenue 134 ($17M) Expenses 97 ($12M) Net assets 243 ($16M)2023 Revenue 130 ($16M) Expenses 111 ($13M) Net assets 289 ($19M)2024 Revenue 164 ($20M) Expenses 153 ($18M) Net assets 324 ($21M)2025 Revenue 154 ($19M) Expenses 167 ($20M) Net assets 315 ($21M)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (167)Net assets (315)Peer revenue range

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 $17M to $25M (+51%).

$7.4M
$7.6M
$8.2M
$14M
$15M
$17M
$25M
$30M
$30M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 45% · 2023 26% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of Vivalon’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,405 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$521k
’17
$59k
’18
$142k
’19
$4.2M
’20
$31k
’21
$5.1M
’22
$3.0M
’23
$2.2M
’24
−$672k
’25
0.7
months of
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

Joe O'Hehir

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121311171618202217
Joined·+1+2+8+1+5+5+9+6
No longer listed·042233711
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $446k → $2.8M.

16 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Vivalon’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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

Vivalon leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 Vivalon.

37%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 32% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 21% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of Vivalon's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Vivalon draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DE
AZ
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Vivalon's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Vivalon?
Vivalon (California) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,731,859 to it, the largest being LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION ($3,958,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Vivalon have?
IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $10,731,859 in grants to Vivalon, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Vivalon?
LEONARD & BERYL BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,958,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vivalon 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 78 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