California · Nonprofit
AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES
AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,359,533 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($22,429,212). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programAMERICAS BEST CHARITIES runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$80M
Recipients
0
Contributions on record
$31M
Donors on record
21
Payments out run 2.6x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporatedshared fundersportfolio match
- Campaigning for Charitiesportfolio match
- Rappahannock United Way Incportfolio match
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.
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $752k → $4.2M.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES’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.
Where its funders are
72% of AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES'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 $8.8M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside California, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporatedshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Campaigning for Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rappahannock United Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kitsap Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Future Now Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of the Greater Dayton Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alabama Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jordan-Evans Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DTCareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Fight Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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 AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES?
- AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,359,533 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($22,429,212). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $31,359,533 in grants to AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,429,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES 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 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing