California · Nonprofit
100 FRIENDS
100 FRIENDS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,380 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($335,915). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $703k
- Net assets
- $76k
What 100 Friends does
Mission
To provide aid for poor and to educate us children: the 100 Friends project aims to bring direct assistance by means of philanthropic travel to many of the world's most needy people. I personally travel to developing countries to carry out humanitarian missions annually and put the money to work in the most compassionate, appropriate, culturally compatible, constructive, and practical manner possible, wherever we see the most deserving need. When at home in the us, I work with thousands of young people to involve them in the project activitites, thus planting seeds for future humanitarian work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Program service accomplishments made to overseas organizations, individuals and families: 1. Medical & food for individuals & families living in the philippines, india, cambodia, afghanistan, nepal, tibet, vietnam & indonesia. 2. Assistance to children and families living in villages of rural cambodia, philippines, tibet and vietnam (scholarships, food, bicycles, medical etc.)3. Educational, nutrition, social and medical services program for 245 children and their families in yangon, myanmar. 4. Support for rice distribution & scholarships for children & families in vietnam.5. Family assistance for recipients in myanmar, cambodia, morocco & the philippines.6. Support for village and slum schools and orphanages in india, cambodia, tibet, nepal and vietnam.7. Support for children scholarships in cambodia, vietnam, tibet & the philippines.8. Funds provided to support vietnamese families living in rural areas.9. Stipends provided for university students in tibet conducting educational instruction for children in tibet.10. Small business support (income generation projects) for individuals in laos, indonesia, the philippines and tibet.the total amount given to various organizations is…
$151,892 spentof which $151,892 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $151,892.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $48k to $131k (+171%).
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.
100% of 100 FRIENDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $46k → $79k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 100 FRIENDS’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
100 FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 100 FRIENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 73% · 2019 81% · 2020 68% · 2021 54% · 2022 66% · 2023 55% — 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
57% of 100 FRIENDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
79% of 100 FRIENDS'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 $150k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
100 FRIENDS's revenue grew 37% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 100 FRIENDS: 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 100 FRIENDS?
- 100 FRIENDS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $703,380 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($335,915). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 100 FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $703,380 in grants to 100 FRIENDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 100 FRIENDS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $335,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 100 FRIENDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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