California · Nonprofit
CAFE PUENTE
CAFE PUENTE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,500 to it, the largest being PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $590k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $133k
What Cafe Puente does
Mission
The mission of café puente is to cultivate a multicultural center in spanish where latin cultures are celebrated, and everyone is welcome.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood program: café puente's early childhood program, puentecitos, provides culturally and linguistically responsive programming for latinx families with children ages 0-5. The program includes spanish-language playgroups, story times, caregiver connection spaces, and family-centered wellness activities designed to support early childhood development, social-emotional well-being, and community belonging. Puentecitos creates a welcoming environment where caregivers build relationships, access resources, and strengthen parenting confidence while children engage in developmentally appropriate learning and socialization. The program also helps reduce isolation among families by fostering consistent community connection and peer support.
$69,186 spent21% of program spendingDance program: café puente's dance program, latidos, offers culturally rooted movement and performing arts opportunities for children, youth, and adults. Classes include urban dance, latin dance, and community performance opportunities that promote cultural pride, self-expression, confidence, and physical wellness. The program creates accessible arts education opportunities in spanish for latinx participants who may otherwise face barriers to participation in traditional arts programs. Through performances, workshops, and community events, participants strengthen leadership skills, build relationships, and celebrate latin american cultures through dance and movement.
$58,595 spent18% of program spendingYouth program: café puente's youth program, puentistas, supports latinx youth through culturally affirming leadership development, mentorship, wellness activities, and community-building opportunities. The program creates safe spaces where youth can build confidence, strengthen cultural identity, develop social-emotional skills, and form supportive peer connections. Activities include group gatherings, creative projects, workshops, and community engagement opportunities designed to encourage youth voice and leadership. Puentistas aims to reduce isolation and increase belonging by providing youth with consistent access to trusted mentors and culturally responsive community support.
$55,731 spent17% of program spendingGeneral programs: other general supporting activities.
$149,871 spent$17,400 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $333,383.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $358k (+3528%).
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: 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CAFE PUENTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CAFE PUENTE’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
CAFE PUENTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CAFE PUENTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
100% of CAFE PUENTE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
CAFE PUENTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAFE PUENTE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 CAFE PUENTE: 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 CAFE PUENTE?
- CAFE PUENTE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,500 to it, the largest being PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAFE PUENTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $241,500 in grants to CAFE PUENTE.
- Who is the largest funder of CAFE PUENTE?
- PETER E HAAS JR FAMILY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAFE PUENTE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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