California · Nonprofit
BE A GOOD DOCTOR
BE A GOOD DOCTOR (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,068 to it, the largest being EDWARD FEIN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $257k
What Be a Good Doctor does
Mission
The primary objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be:a) provide leadership development for social entrepreneursb) provide opportunity for health internships and practical professional experience students of health professionsc) provide interpretation and volunteer services for patients in medical settingsd) sponsor special talks and provide information related to medical education and career planning in medicinee) engage the community at large in educational medical forums and websites
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Be a Good Doctor is a student-led nonprofit incubator, growing the next generation of social entrepreneurs. We offer transformative experiences for both undergraduates and postgraduates by empowering them to start,lead, and grow organizations. We match students, resources, and donors to good ideas to create meaningful social change, facilitating mentorship of bright, compassionate students from top us colleges to lead these efforts.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $232k to $257k (+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.
100% of BE A GOOD DOCTOR’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $37.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 BE A GOOD DOCTOR’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
BE A GOOD DOCTOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 BE A GOOD DOCTOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
63% of BE A GOOD DOCTOR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BE A GOOD DOCTOR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,300 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,300 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like BE A GOOD DOCTOR
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE A GOOD DOCTOR: 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 BE A GOOD DOCTOR?
- BE A GOOD DOCTOR (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,068 to it, the largest being EDWARD FEIN FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BE A GOOD DOCTOR have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $68,068 in grants to BE A GOOD DOCTOR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE A GOOD DOCTOR?
- EDWARD FEIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE A GOOD DOCTOR 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), 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