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California Reentry Institute

California Reentry Institute (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,418 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($131,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$146k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$371k
Net assets
$225k
6/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What California Reentry Institute does

Mission

Cri believes that there has to be a cohesive transition from incarceration to freedom. In order to be successful, our graduates must have a safe place to go upon their release. A place where they can continue the work they have started and have assistance with adjusting to life on the outside,gaining employment, and reconnecting with family and community. Services are provided to make this happen, including individual case management, life-long support, encouragement, and assistance.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. CRI's Pre Release Program: Our Pre-Release Program is a minimum 18-24 month weekly program run by an experienced team with strong curriculum designed to provide insight, education, life skills and comprehensive individual case management. Men who voluntarily enter our program are helped to understand who they were, what they did (understanding the pain and suffering that they have caused), who they are and can be and where they are going, preparing a road map to successfully get there and stay the course.

    $26,226 spent
    26% of program spending
  2. CRI's Post Release Program: Upon their release we are there for the men who have worked so hard and graduated from our Pre-Release program. We arrange for someone to be there from the first moment to assist them with the basics needs that are proven vital to their reentry success. These include Transportation; Clothing; Food and Amenities; Financial Resources; Documentation; Employment and Education; Health Care; Life Skills; Addiction and Recovery Aftercare; any and all assistance required as well as continued individual case management.

    $73,331 spent
    74% of program spending
  3. CRI's Sharing the Truth with Youth program is built on the belief that mentoring, sharing and caring are key to providing a more hopeful future to our youth. This program starts inside San Quentin State Prison where youth offenders of all ages and stages of incarceration share with youth in society the things they wish they had known at a younger age - things that could have changed the trajectory of their lives. Through this program, these men get the chance to speak directly to youth in schools and organizations out here in society. California Reentry Institute brings our moving documentary as well as some of these and other formerly incarcerated youth offenders to share their stories and answer any and all questions in the hopes that we can help change the trajectory of their lives and help them not make the same mistakes.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,557.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($54k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2018 Revenue 59 ($32k) Expenses 97 ($57k) Net assets 82 ($97k)2019 Revenue 108 ($58k) Expenses 104 ($61k) Net assets 82 ($96k)2020 Revenue 213 ($115k) Expenses 144 ($84k) Net assets 110 ($129k)2021 Revenue 299 ($162k) Expenses 160 ($93k) Net assets 169 ($198k)2022 Revenue 99 ($54k) Expenses 133 ($77k) Net assets 148 ($174k)2023 Revenue 228 ($123k) Expenses 160 ($93k) Net assets 174 ($204k)2024 Revenue 270 ($146k) Expenses 213 ($124k) Net assets 192 ($225k)
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Revenue (270)Expenses (213)Net assets (192)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $128k to $197k (+54%).

$113k
$90k
$94k
$128k
$197k
$173k
$206k
$225k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

104% of California Reentry Institute’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
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−$25k
’18
−$2k
’19
$31k
’20
$69k
’21
−$24k
’22
$30k
’23
$22k
’24
18
months of
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.

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Listed44444558
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+0+3
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $10k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 California Reentry Institute’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

California Reentry Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

69% 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 California Reentry Institute.

35%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 67% · 2022 74% · 2023 99% — 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.

How long its funders stay

40% of California Reentry Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

69% of California Reentry Institute'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 $115k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from California funders.

CA
MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

California Reentry Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve18.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds California Reentry Institute?
California Reentry Institute (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $371,418 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($131,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does California Reentry Institute have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $371,418 in grants to California Reentry Institute, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of California Reentry Institute?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $131,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like California Reentry Institute 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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