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1951 COFFEE COMPANY

1951 COFFEE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,363 to it, the largest being Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment ($367,411). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$871k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$542k
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What 1951 Coffee Company does

Mission

At 1951 coffe company, we blend the warmth of coffee with the strength of community to uplift refugees on their journey to new beginnings in the united states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Impacts in 2024: 67% of gruaduates received job offers. 1 graduate opeened a mobile coffee business along with two other students. Total 2024 participants include: 39 adults and 28 youths in collaboration with two organizations. Participants came from 21 countries inlcduing 45 females, 20 males and 2 non binaries.participant spoke a total of 12 languages including: spanish, tigrinya, amharic, burmese, ukrainian, turkish, dari/pashto, arabic, french, haitian creole, hindi & nepali.

    $883,227 spent$642,845 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $883,227.

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 ($476k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($422k)2018 Revenue 191 ($908k) Expenses 181 ($805k) Net assets 124 ($525k)2019 Revenue 246 ($1.2M) Expenses 270 ($1.2M) Net assets 117 ($495k)2020 Revenue 122 ($581k) Expenses 198 ($881k) Net assets 46 ($195k)2021 Revenue 155 ($736k) Expenses 122 ($542k) Net assets 92 ($389k)2022 Revenue 167 ($796k) Expenses 146 ($648k) Net assets 127 ($536k)2023 Revenue 161 ($765k) Expenses 173 ($771k) Net assets 145 ($614k)2024 Revenue 183 ($871k) Expenses 212 ($943k) Net assets 128 ($542k)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (212)Net assets (128)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 2019 to 2020, from $556k to $401k (−28%).

$440k
$557k
$556k
$401k
$420k
$566k
$649k
$587k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 39% · 2022 15% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

26% of 1951 COFFEE COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’17
$103k
’18
−$29k
’19
−$301k
’20
$194k
’21
$147k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$73k
’24
4.4
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

John Douglas Hewitt

CEO and president

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed101010999910
Joined·+1+1+1+0+6+0+1
No longer listed·1120600
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $33k → $15k.

10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 1951 COFFEE COMPANY’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

1951 COFFEE COMPANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

42% 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 1951 COFFEE COMPANY.

33%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 56% · 2021 29% · 2022 79% · 2023 99% — 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

17% of 1951 COFFEE COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

86% of 1951 COFFEE COMPANY's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
CA
DE
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

1951 COFFEE COMPANY has grown faster than half of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds 1951 COFFEE COMPANY?
1951 COFFEE COMPANY (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,363 to it, the largest being Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment ($367,411). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 1951 COFFEE COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,106,363 in grants to 1951 COFFEE COMPANY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 1951 COFFEE COMPANY?
Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment is the largest funder on record, with $367,411 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 1951 COFFEE COMPANY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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