California · Nonprofit
Calaveras Cold Case Task Force
Calaveras Cold Case Task Force (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being WINGS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $283k
What Calaveras Cold Case Task Force does
Mission
The Calaveras Cold Case Task Forces mission is to solve cold cases. This mission is accomplished by forensic services that provide cutting-edge scientific technology and methods. Through these efforts the cctf is accomplishing the identification of unidentified human remains and missing persons and bringing justice to victims and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The CCTFs goal is to solve cold cases. This is primarily accomplished by reviewing evidence and funding laboratory analysis of evidence and human remains that have been unidentified for many years. Forensic services funded by the CCTF have resulted in the identification of numerous pieces of human remains that have been unidentified since they were discovered at a massive crime scene in Wilseyville CA in the 1980s. The remains consisted of pieces of bone and teeth that had been burned and crushed or were highly degraded by other means. Some public sources estimate that twenty people were victimized by the two serial killers and known victims consist of whole families including two babies. The CCTF has submitted over 150 pieces of bone and teeth from this case for specialized forensic analysis to laboratories that specialize in extracting DNA from highly degraded remains. Numerous fragments of these remains have been successfully identified since 2024. Of these several pieces of a female victim were identified and are in the process of being returned to her family. In late 2024 the team successfully identified a previously unknown victim: Reginald Reggie Frisby a black man from San…
$103,510 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $258k to $283k (+10%).
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 Calaveras Cold Case Task Force’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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.
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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Calaveras Cold Case Task Force’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
Calaveras Cold Case Task Force leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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 Calaveras Cold Case Task Force'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
Calaveras Cold Case Task Force runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Calaveras Cold Case Task Force
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Calaveras Cold Case Task Force: 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 Calaveras Cold Case Task Force?
- Calaveras Cold Case Task Force (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being WINGS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Calaveras Cold Case Task Force have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to Calaveras Cold Case Task Force.
- Who is the largest funder of Calaveras Cold Case Task Force?
- WINGS OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Calaveras Cold Case Task Force 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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