California · Nonprofit
BANANAS INCORPORATED
BANANAS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,577,312 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,200). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Bananas Incorporated does
Mission
Bananas mission is to partner with families and child care providers to raise happy, confident children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alternative payment - pays for the child care of low income northern alameda county families who qualify for services. Child care subsidies - 2,580 children received child care tuition assistance. Child care subsidy payments - served 1,128 child care providers.
$36,709,913 spent$7,936 earned by the program90% of program spendingCommunity services - provide child care referrals, child rearing information and services to parents. Provide technical assistance and training for child care providers. Child care resource & referral services - 5,650 families assisted in seeking childcare. Parent education - held 212 family workshops. Family navigation - 10 workshops, served: 138 care families, 175 children experiencing homelessness, 36 foster care families, 302 families at havenscourt cubhouse. Family resources - served 95 parents with mental health warmline coaching, 390 parents attended workshops and 212 families attended workshops. Health & safety - 217 participants received cpr and preventative health certificates. Professional development for child care providers - 72 workshops held, 678 child care providers served. Tiny steps / headstart - 59 children served in 11 family child care homes in oakland. Playgroups - 118 playgroup sessions, serving 102 kids and their caregivers to provide 1,511 learning experiences in numeracy, literacy, music, and art. Family friend & neighbor - served 31 child care providers. Diaper distribution: 213,816 diapers distributed and 1,770 families served. Stem materials…
$4,266,659 spent$19,048 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $40,976,572.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9.5M to $13M (+35%).
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: 2017 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 93% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BANANAS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kim Johnson
CEO
Board chair
Makinya Ward
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $99k → $316k.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 BANANAS INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
BANANAS INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
55% 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 BANANAS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 35% · 2020 30% · 2021 18% · 2022 35% · 2023 19% — 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 BANANAS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
84% of BANANAS INCORPORATED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BANANAS INCORPORATED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BANANAS INCORPORATED
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Bananas Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BANANAS INCORPORATED: 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 BANANAS INCORPORATED?
- BANANAS INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,577,312 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,200). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BANANAS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,577,312 in grants to BANANAS INCORPORATED, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BANANAS INCORPORATED?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $436,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BANANAS INCORPORATED 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 36 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