California · Nonprofit
3CORE Inc
3CORE Inc (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,374,688 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,591,188). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What 3CORE Inc does
Mission
Serve as an intermediary for public and private funds that foster a stable and diversified local economy, to improve social, economic and employment conditions and implement sound, long-term strategy to address identified community needs.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Organization and Nature of Activities 3CORE, Inc. (the Corporation) is a private not-for-profit corporation organized and established in 1985 to serve the rural northern California region of Butte, Glenn, and Tehama and the cities therein. The specific purpose of the Corporation is to be an intermediary for public and private investments that foster a stable and diversified local economy, to improve social, economic, and employment conditions through collaborative partnerships and to implement a sound, long-term strategy that can address identified community needs through the private, public, and nonprofit organizations principally located within Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties. The Corporation is a federally recognized Economic Development District (EDD), a state and federally certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), and a licensed lender regulated by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI). Services related to economic development are funded, in part, through various federal grants and matching funds provided by local jurisdictions. The Corporations revolving loan fund program provides financing to local businesses. The…
$1,083,114 spentof which $285,930 as grants$264,393 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,083,114.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.7M to $9.4M (+22%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 23% · 2019 5% · 2020 29% · 2021 84% · 2022 64% · 2023 83% · 2024 53% · 2025 54% · 2026 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of 3CORE Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 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
Patty Hess
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 3CORE 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
3CORE Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 3CORE Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 71% · 2020 94% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
0% of 3CORE Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 FY2022, 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
76% of 3CORE Inc'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 $569k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
3CORE Inc has grown faster than half of the 630 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding 3CORE Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- Department of Commerce$4.6M
- Department of the Treasury$1.3M
- Department of Agriculture$429k
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 3CORE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 3CORE 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 3CORE Inc?
- 3CORE Inc (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,374,688 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,591,188). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does 3CORE Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,374,688 in grants to 3CORE Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 3CORE Inc?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,591,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 3CORE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 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