California · Nonprofit
CAPACITY SHOP
CAPACITY SHOP (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,311,707 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,253,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Capacity Shop does
Mission
We connect diverse social justice organizations with the resources, training, and technical assistance they need to build power, strengthen operational capacity, and maximize impact.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Resource center: tcs develops core curriculum, training, and resources for the resource center including role based education programming.
$727,754 spent74% of program spendingAccelerator resources and toolkits: we offer our program participants education and training from some of the most experienced experts in the field.
$143,558 spent15% of program spendingState based education: expands access to the training, tools and resources, and access to expertise that state infrastructure needs.
$105,699 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $977,011.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $4.8M (+213%).
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.
99% of CAPACITY SHOP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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.
Board chair
Maya Thornell-Sandifor
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CAPACITY SHOP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
CAPACITY SHOP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
27% 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 CAPACITY SHOP.
“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
CAPACITY SHOP draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k 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
CAPACITY SHOP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CAPACITY SHOP
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- New Left Accelerator · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPACITY SHOP: 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 CAPACITY SHOP?
- CAPACITY SHOP (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,311,707 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,253,644). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPACITY SHOP have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $5,311,707 in grants to CAPACITY SHOP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPACITY SHOP?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,253,644 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPACITY SHOP 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing