California · Nonprofit
COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,290 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($277,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $625k
- Net assets
- $220k
What Coherent Development Research Institute does
Mission
Coherent Development Research Institute (cdri) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the generation, application, and diffusion of knowledge that would enable youth to seek a pattern of life coherent in its material, intellectual and moral dimensions. It pursues its aims through participatory action research in urban neighborhoods and rural towns across california.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Internship programover the course of 2024, cdri engaged 43 high school and college youth in its year-long internship program. The program aims to raise capacity in young people to contribute meaningfully to the progress and development of their communities. Interns receive training, mentorship, and a scholarship while engaged in action-research in their communities. During 2024, interns developed capacity by offering academic tutoring to middle school students.
$133,825 spentof which $133,825 as grants68% of program spendingSummer programsduring the summer of 2024, cdri hosted middle school summer programs in three cities: san diego, pasadena, and san pablo. A total of 129 middle school and elementary school students participated. Additionally, 63 high school and college-age youth were trained and engaged as tutors and coordinators of the summer programs. The total program hours across the three sites was 274 hours. Participants strengthened language and math abilities through study; they played sports and learned crafts. The program was offered free of charge and targeted under-served neighborhoods in large urban centers. The academic tutors were youth from these same neighborhoods. They were given small stipends.
$24,920 spentof which $15,800 as grants13% of program spendingAcademic tutoringcdri offers academic tutoring to middle school students to enhance their intellectual abilities and address educational achievement gaps associated with socio-economic status. During 2024, 145 students participated in cdri tutoring in san diego, pasadena, and san pablo. Tutoring took place multiple days per week on school grounds and at community centers.
$33,040 spent17% of program spendingCdri hosts annual or semi-annual camps that extend educational experiences to college students beyond the five neighborhoods where it currently operates. The program develops a pool of future collaborators for cdri's current and expanding neighborhood initiatives.
$6,279 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,064.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $91k to $188k (+107%).
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.
99% of COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Sona Farid Arbab
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $131k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE’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
COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 37% · 2023 39% — 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
COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,290 to it, the largest being WAYFARER FOUNDATION ($277,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $625,290 in grants to COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- WAYFARER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $277,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COHERENT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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