California · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,844 to it, the largest being FARRINGTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ($29,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $217k
What Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga does
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to promote effective volunteerism through education, service and leadership development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Operation school bell - this is a multi-part outreach program geared to elementary and middle school children in campbell union, moreland and luther burbank school districts.literacy - to encourage a love of reading in students, volunteers visit elementary school classrooms once a month to read aloud and then donate new books to the class library. The program provides quality new and gently used books as well for personal use. The chapter has two book give-away programs: in december each child receives one book to take home and in may each student receives two books for summer reading. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, with volunteers, the chapter provided 260 classroom books and 1,556 take-home books to 510 students from 26 classrooms in 5 schools. A pilot fluency program working with small groups of students on fluency and comprehension was begun. Clothes for kids - this program works with area school districts to provide jackets, uniforms, hygiene kits, and shoes and socks to students living at or below the poverty line referred by school personnel, and fill emergency uniform and clothing needs of students as needed. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, with 23 volunteers, the chapter…
$48,211 spent50% of program spendingFamily programs - new moms and their babies identified by santa clara county public health nurses are provided with baby bundles containing layette items, toys, board books, clothing, and diapers. Families also receive holiday and birthday gifts to ensure that all children in the family receive at least one gift. 402 of these gifts were provided in the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The chapter also provided other essential baby needs at nurse requests. The family store, where a variety of items that may be "purchased" using points earned by the mothers for attending medical appointments and parenting classes resumed in the fall of 2024.
$35,043 spent36% of program spendingSenior program - in conjunction with saratoga adult daycare center, teams of chapter plan, shop for and prepare nutritious lunches two days a week for the clients and also provide valuable social interaction.
$4,681 spent5% of program spendingWvcs park-it market - this program was begun in june 2021, in cooperation with west valley community services. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the chapter procured and packaged 840 care kits with household or hygiene items for distribution to west valley community services clients.
$8,898 spent9% of program spendingWvc office of student needs this pilot program was begun in june 2024. 11 volunteers helped regularly with the wvc food pantry, and 47 volunteers helped with special events like the wvc toy and book drive, holiday gift wrap, and a parenting students' event.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,833.
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 2024 to 2025, from $207k to $226k (+9%).
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.
89% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Lynn Williams
Strategic planning chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $158.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 LOS GATOS-SARATOGA’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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA
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.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,844 to it, the largest being FARRINGTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ($29,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $48,844 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA?
- FARRINGTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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