California · Nonprofit
BREAD OF LIFE
BREAD OF LIFE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,767 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($35,369). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $171k
What Bread of Life does
Mission
Mission: Bread of Life offers community and practices that support the intentional spiritual journey toward fullness of life and courageous offering of gifts to the world. Vision: transformed people living into their gifts and seeding a wisdom way in the world that honors the sacred in every person and all of creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The spiritual formation program offers one-on-one spiritual direction sessions with trained spiritual directors to approximately 70 people per month. The program's purpose is to engage people in exploration of their life, skills, goals, and personal spiritual growth from their own faith background. We offer a one-year program, which meets monthly, to approximately 18 people annually which engages them in listening for the next steps in their life's work and spiritual practice. We offer a 2-year intensive program to 20 interns which is an intensive preparation program for becoming spiritual directors. Last, we offer a community of practice and a soul-tender membership program to 40 people annually allowing them to become a community in which to carry out their spiritual direction work and support to one another.
$156,040 spent$89,939 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,040.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $61k to $118k (+94%).
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.
46% of BREAD OF LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $42k → $31.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 BREAD OF LIFE’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
BREAD OF LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 BREAD OF LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of BREAD OF LIFE'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BREAD OF LIFE's revenue fell 59% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BREAD OF LIFE
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 BREAD OF LIFE: 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 BREAD OF LIFE?
- BREAD OF LIFE (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,767 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($35,369). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAD OF LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $80,767 in grants to BREAD OF LIFE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAD OF LIFE?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $35,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAD OF LIFE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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