California · Nonprofit
CELEBRATION NATION INC
CELEBRATION NATION INC (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,126 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($125,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Celebration Nation Inc does
Mission
Providing human services, food, accessible education, community cultural events, healthcare, resources, and daily essentials to low-income families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, celebration nation advanced its mission to uplift indigenous latino and farmworker families by expanding access to food, education, essential resources, and community support.throughout the year, one of our central priorities was strengthening our farmworker food security program. We significantly expanded our food bank operations, distributing consistent, nutritious groceries to families experiencing food insecurity. Through our food-recovery efforts, we diverted edible food from reaching landfills and redirected it to households in need, promoting both environmental sustainability and community nourishment. In 2024, celebration nation secured and distributed over $1,000,000 in in-kind (continued on schedule o) donated food from partner food banks, underscoring our continued commitment to ending hunger.beyond food access, we invested in community support services and cultural programming designed to provide families with stability, connection, and dignity. Our family-centered events offered safe spaces for celebration, healing, and mutual support, especially for families navigating hardship, isolation, and fear.recognizing the importance of sustainability and…
$1,929,603 spentof which $1,455,844 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,929,603.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $49k to $12k (−75%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CELEBRATION NATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Flor Martinez Zaragoza
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $152k → $72k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CELEBRATION NATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 24 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
CELEBRATION NATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
73% 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 CELEBRATION NATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 62% · 2022 69% · 2023 28% — 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.
Where its funders are
CELEBRATION NATION INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CELEBRATION NATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CELEBRATION NATION INC
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
96% 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 CELEBRATION NATION INC: 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 CELEBRATION NATION INC?
- CELEBRATION NATION INC (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,126 to it, the largest being SHARE OUR STRENGTH ($125,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CELEBRATION NATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $420,126 in grants to CELEBRATION NATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CELEBRATION NATION INC?
- SHARE OUR STRENGTH 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 CELEBRATION NATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 24 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