California · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,433 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($33,059). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Assistance League of Sacramento does
Mission
The organization's primary mission is to provide specific philantropic services to enhance the lives of children and adults in the greater sacramento area through community based programs. They clothe, they comfort, and they educate
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation school bell is the flagship program of Assistance League of Sacramento. This program clothed 14,731 school children in k-6th grade. Three hundred seventy-one hygiene kits were provided. The literacy component of the program provided 15,099 students with their own book, and 40 books on diversity were provided to 17 school libraries. Thirty-nine schools in 4 school districts plus one homeless students services program benefited from operation school bell. The book buddies program was reinstituted in the primary grades, where assistance league members go into the classrooms and listen to the students read.operation school bell - eyes right is a component that provides vision screening of preschool children to detect possible eye problems, particularly amblyopia (lazy eye) among other vision problems, or other like services as designated in this agreement. This program served 142 children, 26 of those children were referred for further evaluation by an optometrist.
$258,338 spent36% of program spendingReaching out is a component of Assistance League of Sacramento's community needs philanthropic program. It is designed to provide flexible, rapid-response assistance to individuals that does not fit within existing programs. This program served more than 3,000 individuals through agencies such as sacramento steps forward, first step communities and foster youth education fund. There was an increased demand for apartment starter kits when first step communities opened their 200 tiny home complex on roseville road. This program provided first step communities with items needed for the complex such as picnic tables, curtain rods, and umbrellas. Additionally, reaching out began a pilot program for katherine johnson middle school to decrease discipline referrals, increase student attendance, increase parent involvement at school and increase staff retention.ther programs - bears is a component of Assistance League of Sacramento's community needs philanthropic program. It provides new teddy bears to comfort traumatized children and adults, many in memory care facilities or other like services. The bears program served 3,000 individuals. The bears program serves many er hospitals…
$215,603 spent30% of program spendingFresh start is a philanthropic program designed by assistance league to provide unmet needs in the areas sex trafficking, sexual assault, and foster youth to community based agencies. This program served 3,913 from 6 agencies providing housing kits, laudry essentials, newborn essentials kits and hygience kits and blankets. This program provides baby essential kits to former foster youth who have had babies.
$121,359 spent17% of program spendingScholarship is a philanthropic program designed by assistance league to award scholarships to local community college students who have overcome difficult life circumstances. This year 90 applications were received, and 34 scholarships were awarded totaling $104,500. Eight of the scholarships were awarded to previous foster youth. The uniqueness of this program is that the students are not required to use the scholarships for tuition or books. If they have a hardship preventing them from getting their education, they can use the scholarship to help with the situation
$115,382 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $710,682.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $2.5M (+14%).
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.
74% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $20k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SACRAMENTO’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 SACRAMENTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 SACRAMENTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 79% · 2022 47% · 2023 80% — 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
50% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
60% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO
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
95%
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 SACRAMENTO?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,433 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($33,059). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $113,433 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $33,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO 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 11 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