California · Nonprofit
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,192,046 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($340,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $765k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $387k
What Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc does
Mission
To provide shelter, resources, and support to homeless families with children and homeless individuals to help them return to stable housing, through a seasonal family shelter, a safe parking program and continued success outreach to former clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family shelter for homeless parents with minor children. Capacity is 8-9 families ata time. It moves every two weeks october-june between 18 faith communities in contracosta county. We work closely with each family to understand their uniquecircumstances and help them find sustainable housing. Coordinate 48 congregations and community groups to provide facilities and services for 36 weeks and over 3,000volunteers to provide evening meals, food for lunch and quick breakfasts, and evening and weekend activities. Tutors help children with homework to keep them at grade level. Trained staff provides 24-hour supervision along with van transportation to school, work, and to oasis day center. Oasis is open on weekdays for both family shelter and safe parking clients. Clients can meet with our staff of client managers to work on getting employment and housing. Oasis has showers.
$579,697 spentof which $28,566 as grants100% of program spendingSafe parking program is a year-round program to help individuals and families who are living in their cars. We staff overnight, supervised parking in pittsburg and antioch, and provide an understanding community, restrooms, hygiene supplies, light meals and snacks, and all client services for employment and housing. Capacity is 15 cars and 20 total clients at a time at each site. Showers are available at oasis daycenter.
Continued success program stays connected with over 80 alumni households of thefamily shelter and safe parking program. We reach out through quarterly emails andprovide advice, referrals, and in some cases financial help with overdue rent orutilities, car repairs, phone bills, or gas and store gift cards. This assistance has helped many alumni households remain housed when faced with financial hardships.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,697.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $314k to $385k (+23%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 17% · 2024 43% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Carmella Kowall
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $91k → $242k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc’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
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
30% 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 Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 82% · 2021 61% · 2022 24% · 2023 21% — 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
60% of Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 68% 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
86% of Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k 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.
Against its field
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,255 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc: 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 Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc?
- Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,192,046 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($340,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,192,046 in grants to Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc?
- SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 28 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