California · Nonprofit
A PLACE CALLED HOME
A PLACE CALLED HOME (California) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,527,242 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($6,126,910). 170 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 284
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $13M
What A Place Called Home does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire, encourage, and support the young people in south los angeles to achieve social, emotional, and economic success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Apch provides year-round, comprehensive programs designed to meet the needs and aspirations of young people including: academic support, art education, vocational training, college readiness, nutrition services, athletics and culinary programs. Programs operate year-round with after school classes during the academic year and full-day camps during the summer.
$4,385,830 spent$201,422 earned by the program70% of program spendingLearning & career development (lcd): the learning and career development (lcd) program provides young people with comprehensive, individualized support to promote educational achievement and career readiness. Services include college application advising, scholarship navigation, career readiness training, internship placement, and academic support such as one-on-one tutoring and homework assistance.during fy 2024-25, more than 450 youth participated in over 6,900 hours of direct services designed to strengthen academic performance, build self-advocacy skills, and prepare participants for postsecondary education and employment opportunities. Participants collectively secured 125 higher education scholarships. The program also supported 96 apch shaheen scholars through targeted mentorship, academic support, and college persistence services. The cohort achieved a 91% overall retention rate and a 36% graduation rate for the class of 2025, significantly exceeding national averages for first-generation, low-income students of color.
$1,060,228 spentof which $522,421 as grants17% of program spendingOur arts and creative expressions (ace) programs empower youth through music, dance, digital media, and visual arts, fostering creative literacy, self-expression, and socioemotional growth. In 2024-25, ace engaged over 900 youth, secured scholarships to berklee college of music, sent five members to csssa, hosted three public facing events (cale, haus of arts, and moondance film festival) collaborated with bodytraffic, blue13 la commons, tag art gallery, and showcased talents in 20+ events citywide, amplifying youth leadership and artistic careers.
$499,649 spent8% of program spendingMental health services: between july 2024 and june 2025, the program served 233 unique individuals and 227 households through individual and group counseling services, delivering more than 1,805 hours of service interactions. Services provided participants with a safe and supportive environment to process emotions, develop coping strategies, and strengthen emotional resilience.recognizing that mental health is closely connected to economic stability and access to basic needs, the program also addressed social determinants that impact family well-being. Food security: distributed 4,020 grocery bags to more than 1,000 households, helping alleviate food insecurity and reduce stressors associated with financial hardship. Direct financial assistance: provided emergency financial assistance to families experiencing crises such as job loss, medical expenses, or housing instability, ensuring continued access to essential resources while maintaining engagement in mental health services.
$349,783 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,295,490.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $20M (+48%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 6% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of A PLACE CALLED HOME’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. 5 of the last 9 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
Norayma Cabot
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Susan Napier
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 79 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.3M.
29 of 284 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 A PLACE CALLED HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 284 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
A PLACE CALLED HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
36% 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 A PLACE CALLED HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 35% · 2019 38% · 2020 13% · 2021 38% · 2022 29% · 2023 22% — 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
39% of A PLACE CALLED HOME'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
52% of A PLACE CALLED HOME's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
A PLACE CALLED HOME's funding base is broadening — from 79 funders to 105 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding A PLACE CALLED HOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 A PLACE CALLED HOME
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 A PLACE CALLED HOME: 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 A PLACE CALLED HOME?
- A PLACE CALLED HOME (California) receives grants from 284 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,527,242 to it, the largest being THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR ($6,126,910). 170 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A PLACE CALLED HOME have?
- IRS filings report 284 organizations giving $34,527,242 in grants to A PLACE CALLED HOME, 170 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A PLACE CALLED HOME?
- THE THEODORE J FORSTMANN CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $6,126,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A PLACE CALLED HOME 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 284 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