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CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST
CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,134 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $0
What CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST does
Mission
Choice Books of West Coast is a literature evangelism ministry associated with the Mennonite Brethren and Mennonite churches. We seek to bring the message of Christ to those who do not have a chance to hear it by placing Christian literature in the secular marketplace, donating Christian literature to prisons, schools, churches, and other social ministries as the opportunity arises. Our staff is trained to fulfil their missionary objective through visitation of the various venues, interacting with the local population, and placing books that meet their needs in that location.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Choice Books of West Coast is a literature evangelism ministry associated with the Mennonite Brethren and Mennonite churches. We seek to bring the message of Christ to those who do not have a chance to hear it by placing Christian books in the secular marketplace and by donating Christian books to prisons, schools, churches, mothers clubs, and other social ministries as the opportunity arises. Our staff is trained to fulfill their missionary objective through visitation of the various venues, interacting with the local population, and placing books that meet their needs in that location.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $571k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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
2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $44.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST’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
CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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 CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST: 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 CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST?
- CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,134 to it, the largest being KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,134 in grants to CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST?
- KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOICE BOOKS of WEST COAST 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), 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