California · Nonprofit
Chosen Little Ones
Chosen Little Ones (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,000 to it, the largest being TRENT ELIJAH FOUNDATION ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Chosen Little Ones does
Mission
The organizations mission is to support and improve the lives of orphans and widows. We strive to build an orphanage every year and love as many elderly people who have lost their spouse. We are also a supporting organization to propel and amplify the Christ centered missions of other organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
the primary accomplishment of the year was making progress in the construction of our orphanage project in Uganda. We were able to complete about 5 8 of the total project. We have multiple buildings land and a great team of leaders watching over our 65 children. The other major accomplishment achieved was getting my director into Harvard to get a masters of divinity. This will greatly increase our organizations ability to be seen and respected by partners and donors.
$110,000 spentof which $110,000 as grants94% of program spendingWe were able to finish building a church in Pakistan with the support of many donors and team members. The vision is to begin educating the children and imparting the spirit of Christ all throughout the region.
$5,000 spent4% of program spendingWe were able to help a mission base in africa buy land for a youth organization. This project is slowly evolving and shifting from a church to a youth empowering institution to help young men and women receive the needed mental and emotional support to become great world changers. Within this mission Stephen Ferrante who is the leader facilitates the establishment of the individuals identity. They are often born with no birth certificates or documentation so Stephen flys from California to africa to help them get ids and drivers licenses so they can begin their careers.
$2,100 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $117,100.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $40k to $176k (+340%).
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 Chosen Little Ones’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of Chosen Little Ones’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
Chosen Little Ones leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 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
57% of Chosen Little Ones's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Chosen Little Ones's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chosen Little Ones
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.
Public support
100%
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 Chosen Little Ones: 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 Chosen Little Ones?
- Chosen Little Ones (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $230,000 to it, the largest being TRENT ELIJAH FOUNDATION ($130,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chosen Little Ones have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $230,000 in grants to Chosen Little Ones, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chosen Little Ones?
- TRENT ELIJAH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chosen Little Ones 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 2023–2025), 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