California · Nonprofit
Assistance League of Santa Ana
Assistance League of Santa Ana (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,226 to it, the largest being DUGAN-SCALLON FOUNDATION ($202,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $544k
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Assistance League of Santa Ana does
Mission
Assistance League of Santa Ana, a nonprofit corporation and chartered chapter of National Assistance League, is a volunteer organization whose members assist the community of Santa Ana by identifying and serving the needs of its citizens through philanthropic projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation School Bell (OSB) provides economically disadvantaged students at thirty-four (34) elementary schools and 10 intermediate schools of the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) with two complete school uniforms sets (white polo shirt and bottoms: shorts, skorts or pants), a jacket, underwear/boxers, toiletry kit, shoes and socks. The students also receive a new backpack filled with school supplies and a new book. OSB is located on the campus of Assistance League of Santa Ana and is the only organization providing free uniforms to children in SAUSD.
$281,553 spentof which $245,898 as grants47% of program spendingCommunity Assistance Outreach Program provides targeted short-term philanthropic services to residents of Santa Ana including holiday gifts to seniors, Holiday Gift of Giving to migrant worker families, and literacy programs for young readers. Community Assistance also includes the Emergency Food Pantry program that provides a selection of staples and fresh produce, ensuring that the most vulnerable among us have reliable access to nutritious food. It also includes open air Food Distribution events that take place during SAUSD school breaks, winter, spring, and summer and provides dry foods, cooking oil as well as fresh food such as garlic, onions, tomatoes, and fruits such as apples, oranges, strawberries, and bananas.
$114,251 spent19% of program spendingThe Dental Center, located on the campus of Assistance League of Santa Ana, provides low-cost dental care for low-income residents of Santa Ana and surrounding communities. Treatment is available for children and adults without dental insurance. Assistance League of Santa Ana is a provider for CalOptima/Medi-Cal/Denti-Cal. Licensed dentists and hygienists work with Assistance League volunteers to provide friendly, excellent and affordable dental care. The staff is bilingual. Patients receive individual instruction on proper oral care and nutrition and are given a dental hygiene kit by the volunteers.
$112,249 spent$38,598 earned by the program19% of program spendingAssistance League Scholarships awards $1,000 scholarships to 20 graduating seniors within the Santa Ana Unified School Districts CTE (Career Technical Education) program. Additionally, five scholarships are awarded to continuing students transitioning to four-year colleges in the amount of $5,000 each. ALSA also provides valuable support services to scholarship recipients including mentorship and workshops to help students navigate the challenges of college life and succeed in their academic and career goals.
$75,473 spentof which $68,250 as grants13% of program spendingOther
$11,952 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $595,478.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $4.2M (+19%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 9% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of Assistance League of Santa Ana’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $70k → $60k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Santa Ana’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 Santa Ana leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 Santa Ana.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 59% · 2021 26% · 2022 81% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of Assistance League of Santa Ana's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
53% of Assistance League of Santa Ana's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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 Santa Ana runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Assistance League of Santa Ana
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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 Santa Ana: 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 Santa Ana?
- Assistance League of Santa Ana (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,226 to it, the largest being DUGAN-SCALLON FOUNDATION ($202,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Assistance League of Santa Ana have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $544,226 in grants to Assistance League of Santa Ana, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Assistance League of Santa Ana?
- DUGAN-SCALLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $202,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Assistance League of Santa Ana 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 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