California · Nonprofit
Atheists United
Atheists United (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,908 to it, the largest being Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust ($52,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $476k
What Atheists United does
Mission
Our mission is to build thriving atheist communities empower people to express their secular values and promote separation of government and religion.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Building: Building a thriving community both within our membership and the surrounding community. We organize affiliate groups youth groups camping trips community food distributions social events educational events science field trips support groups and highway cleanups.
$53,027 spent48% of program spendingOutreach: Empowering people to express their secular values. We table at community events support the secular community through charitable giving and the Street Pirates remove illegal signage from public places cleaning the neighborhood.
$31,591 spent29% of program spendingAdvocacy: Promoting the separation of government and religion. We host letter writing campaigns and attend organized events throughout the state that promotes the separation of church and state and issues that matter to our membership.
$24,821 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,439.
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 2022 to 2023, from $478k to $443k (−7%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Evan Clark
Executive Director
Board chair
Christine Jones
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $185 → $6k.
1 of 6 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 Atheists United’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
Atheists United leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 64% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of Atheists United's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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 Atheists United
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
91%
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 Atheists United: 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 Atheists United?
- Atheists United (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,908 to it, the largest being Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust ($52,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Atheists United have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $78,908 in grants to Atheists United, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atheists United?
- Johnson James Hervey Char Ed Trust is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atheists United 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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