California · Nonprofit
CLOUD & FIRE
CLOUD & FIRE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,402 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $25k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $0
What Cloud & Fire does
Mission
Inner city youth assistance organization. We help at-risk urban youth become successful in life.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Cloud & Fire has discontinued its programs in preparation for formal dissolution. However, in keeping with its Christian mission of equipping youth to thrive, Cloud & Fire dispersed its remaining funds to other Christian organizations with similar goals. By doing so, the Board of Directors has ensured that the mission of Cloud & Fire will continue. Cloud & Fire has carefully selected organizations that understand the importance of working with youth, and that already have a commitment to equipping youth to thrive spiritually, educationally, and emotionally. Arleta First Assembly of God Church: As a regular part of its outreach into the community, Arleta Assembly of God provides after-school clubs on the campuses of schools that are in high-need neighborhoods. Because Cloud & Fire originally began as an after-school club for children, this ministry is held in high regard by the Cloud & Fire Board of Directors. Cloud & Fire was able to share resources with Arleta Assembly which included supplies, and enough funding to enable the part-time Childrens Ministry Director to become a full-time employee. Thus, Cloud & Fires mission will continue, though now in other hands and under new…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 $81k 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
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $23.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 CLOUD & FIRE’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
CLOUD & FIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 CLOUD & FIRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 83% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of CLOUD & FIRE'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. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $146k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CLOUD & FIRE
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
96%
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 CLOUD & FIRE: 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 CLOUD & FIRE?
- CLOUD & FIRE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,402 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLOUD & FIRE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $156,402 in grants to CLOUD & FIRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLOUD & FIRE?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 CLOUD & FIRE 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 6 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