California · Nonprofit
AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES
AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,506,806 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($6,501,035). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $197k
What Americas Best Local Charities does
Mission
Americas Best Local Charities raises funds and awareness to assist neighbors in need by aiding our diverse partner charities and encouraging supporters to contribute to their cause.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Ablc screens and certifies local charities that meet standards for inclusion in the combined federal campaign, public sector, and corporate workplace charitable fund drives. Acting as the central representative and fiscal agent in those drives, ablc increases cost-effectiveness and efficiency. Also provides other direct donation opportunities. Expenses reflect distributions to our partner charities.
$4,862,633 spentof which $4,862,633 as grants94% of program spendingAblc connects donors to quality local charities that address a variety of concerns. Provides personalized telephone, print, web-based education and information services for contributors to use in gift-making decisions; trains charities on how to attract and serve contributors; provides logistical support to fund drive organizers; provides necessary management and fiscal services.
$289,955 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,152,588.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.7M to $4.0M (−29%).
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 AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $913k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 LOCAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 49% · 2019 70% · 2020 70% · 2021 86% · 2022 86% · 2023 81% — 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
33% of AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES'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
73% of AMERICAS BEST LOCAL 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 $2.9M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 35 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES
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
99% 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 LOCAL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES?
- AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,506,806 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($6,501,035). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $10,506,806 in grants to AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES?
- GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,501,035 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAS BEST LOCAL 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing