California · Nonprofit
Assistance League of Long Beach
Assistance League of Long Beach (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,824,447 to it, the largest being The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach ($1,150,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Assistance League of Long Beach does
Mission
Improving lives to ensure our communities thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation School Bell delivers new school uniforms to kindergarten through high school students in the Long Beach Unified School District. During fiscal year 2025, Operation School Bell provided uniforms for 14,048 students.
$1,070,624 spentof which $700,265 as grants41% of program spendingThe Orthodontic Program provides orthodontic services at a reduced cost to youth in the greater Long Beach region. Throughout fiscal year 2025, the Orthodontic Center averaged 1,067 patients under treatment.
$1,058,324 spent$658,862 earned by the program40% of program spendingMentoring and Scholarship programs support students in the Long Beach community. The mentoring program provides promising students with individualized guidance in academic achievement, career development, and social responsibility. Scholarships are awarded to students attending local high schools, Long Beach City College, and California State University Long Beach, as well as other universities. In fiscal year 2025, 38 students received scholarships and 32 students were mentored.
$227,197 spentof which $142,850 as grants9% of program spendingThe Howard and Asian Art Collection is a museum-quality display of Asian artifacts housed at the Corporations Cherese Mari Laulhere Philanthropic Center. The Collection includes pieces accumulated by Walter and Margaret Howard as well as other gifts contributed to Assistance League of Long Beach. Docent-led tours are provided for Long Beach Unified School District students as an integral part of seventh-grade curriculum. During fiscal year 2025, 509 students and more than 100 adults toured the facility.
$163,688 spent6% of program spendingOther Programs
$110,062 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,629,895.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $14M (−10%).
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: 2022 6% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 broadened from 11 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $70k → $707k.
12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Assistance League of Long Beach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
Assistance League of Long Beach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of Assistance League of Long Beach's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of Assistance League of Long Beach's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $742k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like Assistance League of Long Beach
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Assistance League of Long Beach: 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 Assistance League of Long Beach?
- Assistance League of Long Beach (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,824,447 to it, the largest being The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach ($1,150,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Assistance League of Long Beach have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,824,447 in grants to Assistance League of Long Beach, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Assistance League of Long Beach?
- The RuMBa Foundation of Long Beach is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Assistance League of Long Beach 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 57 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