California · Nonprofit
CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION
CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,768,100 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,314,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $-115989
What Catchafire Foundation does
Mission
To match skilled volunteers to non-profit organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Catchafire Foundation is contracting with catchafire inc. To provide a platform to connect nonprofits to professionals who want to donate their skills. Through a unique combination of technology and human support, the platform helps nonprofits articulate their needs in the form of prescoped, short term, virtual volunteer projects. The platform empowers nonprofits to select the professionals who are right for their projects and organizations. The professionals work with nonprofits on critical operational projects, such as creating a marketing strategy or building a new website. This allows the nonprofits to build their overall capacity and use their resources more effectively to create greater impact. Each match on the platform represents a meaningful connection and a rare opportunity for nonprofit and business professionals to work together and learn from one another. Through over 100+ different prescoped project types and a powerful matching process, the platform facilitates deep and meaningful engagements. Matches on the platform result in many volunteer professionals becoming supporters of the organization: as donors, mentors, social media advocates, repeat volunteers, and even…
$1,305,900 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,305,900.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $328k to $31k (−90%).
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 CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Rachael Chong
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $200k → $1.5M.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION’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
CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 17% · 2021 44% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION: 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 CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION?
- CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,768,100 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,314,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,768,100 in grants to CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,314,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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