California · Nonprofit
API RISE
API RISE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $788,475 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($202,575). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $909k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $788k
- Net assets
- $311k
What Api Rise does
Mission
To make freedom possible for the community of current and formerly incarcerated individuals, youth and families in high-risk situations, allies, supporters, and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CDSS STH (California Department of Social Services Stop The Hate) - VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING
$168,695 spent$168,695 earned by the program21% of program spendingTce 3 (the california endowment) - ethno-raciality power building
$109,233 spent$100,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingWeingart - organizational development
$100,536 spent$150 earned by the program12% of program spendingHSF - Heising-Simons Foundation - Organizational capacity building
$99,800 spent$100,000 earned by the program12% of program spendingLAVH - (LA vs HATE)LA County Human Relations Commission providing violence prevention training and videos
$69,959 spent$69,959 earned by the program9% of program spendingRTR - (READY TO RISE) CA Community Foundation/LA County Probation Dept. - Youth Incarceration Prevention
$55,992 spent$55,992 earned by the program7% of program spendingGFC (GOLD FUTURES CHALLENGE) - API INCARCERATION AWARENESS PODCAST - We provide prison in reach correspondence, reentry services, cultural learning and leadership development for youth and adults, policy advocacy, and organize unity building gatherings for an array of marginalized communities.
$50,570 spent6% of program spendingTYJ - (Transform Youth Justice) - Youth Incarceration Prevention
$48,777 spent$48,777 earned by the program6% of program spendingNVF CE (New Venture Fund AAPI Civic Engagement) - ETHNO-RACIAL POWER BUILDING
$40,344 spent$50,927 earned by the program5% of program spendingBSCC/HUB (Board of State and Community Corrections/ Healing Urban Barrios) - VIOLENCE PREVENTION
$30,394 spent$30,394 earned by the program4% of program spendingLARK - Staff Wellness
$20,050 spent$30,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingARDI - (Anti-Racism Diversity Initiative) - Conduct listening circles, surveys, and healing-centered focus groups
$12,288 spent2% of program spendingNbf new breath foundation - general operations to support programs and overall organizational growth.
The 13 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $806,638.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $332k to $741k (+123%).
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.
94% of API RISE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $148k.
4 of 13 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 API RISE’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
API RISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 API RISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
96% of API RISE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328k 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
API RISE is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like API RISE
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for API RISE: 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 API RISE?
- API RISE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $788,475 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($202,575). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does API RISE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $788,475 in grants to API RISE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of API RISE?
- WEINGART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like API RISE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 13 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