California · Nonprofit
Assistance League of San Bernardino
Assistance League of San Bernardino (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,754 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $239k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Assistance League of San Bernardino does
Mission
The San Bernardino chapter consists of more than 70 members who are volunteers dedicated to the success and well-being of the children of our community. The chapter is supported by Les Confreres, an auxiliary of former members. Together, these dynamic women volunteer over 5,016 hours of service and raise more than $100,000 annually to support their philanthropies.Provides complete professional dental services to uninsured and underinsured children between the ages of 5 to 25 living in the San Bernardino and surrounding communities including Colton, Highland and Muscoy. Services are provided for a $20 fee, regardless of number of services provided. No child is ever turned away if they can not afford to pay the fee.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assistance League of San Bernardino adopted the National Assistance League's Signature Program, Operation School Bell, in 1983. San Bernardino City School personnel identify two hundred under-resourced K-12 students enrolled in San Bernardino City Unified School District annually. All identified students are eligible to participate. The program provides new clothing, shoes and personal hygiene products for children wearing old, worn, ill-fitting, and or dirty clothing and shoes. Assistance League volunteers operate the program once a month at a San Bernardino store.
$40,510 spent18% of program spendingThe Dr. Earl R. Crane Children's Dental Health Center Programs comprise the Children's Dental Clinic, School-Based Dental Sealant & Fluoride Varnish, Orthodontic Treatment, Oral Cancer Screening, Community Outreach, and Oral Health Education and Oral Hygiene Kit Distribution Programs that serve 4,210 children (ages five to twenty-five), young adults, and residents annually. Professional dental staff and Assistance League volunteers design, implement, and evaluate all programs
$184,072 spent$5,832 earned by the program82% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,582.
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 $1.5M to $1.7M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Assistance League of San Bernardino’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Phyllis Hough
Dental Center Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $98k → $38k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 San Bernardino’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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 San Bernardino leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 San Bernardino.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 49% · 2021 55% · 2022 33% · 2023 66% — 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 San Bernardino's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
90% of Assistance League of San Bernardino's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 San Bernardino holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Assistance League of San Bernardino
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 San Bernardino: 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 San Bernardino?
- Assistance League of San Bernardino (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,754 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Assistance League of San Bernardino have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $380,754 in grants to Assistance League of San Bernardino, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Assistance League of San Bernardino?
- DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Assistance League of San Bernardino 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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