California · Nonprofit
Assistance League of Whittier
Assistance League of Whittier (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,520 to it, the largest being CREDIT UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Assistance League of Whittier does
Mission
Assistance League of Whittier transforming the lives of children and adults through community programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation School Bell provides back to school essentials including new school clothing, underwear, socks, shoes, jackets, and backpacks to elementary and middle school children in the four Whittier area school districts who are identified by their schools as needing assistance.
$73,728 spentof which $63,050 as grants74% of program spendingOther programs include: Scholarships provide financial assistance to qualifying Whittier Union High School District (WUHSD) seniors who will attend college in the fall.Summer Reading Program provides financial assistance for incentives and activities at the City of Whittier Public Libraries encouraging Whittier children to read throughout their summer vacation. A celebration is held at a local park to acknowledge their achievements. Wee Wardrobe provides layettes for newborns at our local hospitals to be distributed to mothers and foster babies without basic essentials.Operation Holiday provides individual Christmas presents and grocery cards to families chosen by the Salvation Army. Action Week is literature based and encourages literacy in the Community. Members participate in Read Across America by reading in elementary classrooms.
$21,550 spentof which $13,300 as grants22% of program spendingDental Care provides dental services to families without dental insurance, in the Whittier area, who are identified by their schools as requiring dental care. Families pay a $10.00 co-pay to the Chapter, which reimburses local dentists, at a significantly reduced rate, for their services.
$3,973 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,251.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+11%).
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: 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $3k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Whittier’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 Whittier leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 Whittier.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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 Whittier's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95 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.
Organizations like Assistance League of Whittier
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Whittier: 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 Whittier?
- Assistance League of Whittier (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,520 to it, the largest being CREDIT UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Assistance League of Whittier have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,520 in grants to Assistance League of Whittier, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Assistance League of Whittier?
- CREDIT UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Assistance League of Whittier 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 4 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