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Communities Moving Forward

Communities Moving Forward (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,100 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($7,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$451k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$6.5M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Communities Moving Forward does

Mission

To build, heal, and restore healthy lives as well as foster healthy life choices.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We actively curated our relationships with our community partners, their staff, and residents: Episcopal Community Services, Mental Health Systems Action East and Action Central, and the County of San Diego Health and Human Services. We partnered with Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) working with mental health services. We continued our life skills, and vocational preparation services as well as assisting formerly incarcerating individuals into securing food sources, government Ids, medical services, and generally assimilating back into the general population. We began working with service animals for trauma survivors. We maintained occupancy of our homes at 87% while continuing to keep housing costs well below the National average to offset inflation increases. Additionally, we covered the housing costs for our residents affected by their State funding and local agencies whos budgets were cut in the third quarter of 024 as well as helping residents to secure funding through solvent programs. Initiated plans for an 18 bed facility with an anticipated build out and completion in the 2nd half of 026. We will donate 2 beds to attendees of the Sand Diego City College drug and rehab…

    $594,581 spent$364,838 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $594,581.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($274k) Net assets 100 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 15 ($299k) Expenses 132 ($362k) Net assets 284 ($12M)2020 Revenue 14 ($285k) Expenses 1548 ($4.2M) Net assets 190 ($8.0M)2021 Revenue 13 ($260k) Expenses 212 ($581k) Net assets 182 ($7.7M)2022 Revenue 16 ($325k) Expenses 216 ($591k) Net assets 176 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 3 ($70k) Expenses 239 ($656k) Net assets 162 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 22 ($451k) Expenses 271 ($743k) Net assets 155 ($6.5M)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (22)Expenses (271)Net assets (155)

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 $12M to $8.1M (−33%).

$5.2M
$12M
$8.1M
$7.8M
$7.5M
$6.9M
$6.8M
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
−$63k
’19
−$4.0M
’20
−$321k
’21
−$266k
’22
−$586k
’23
−$293k
’24
3.3
months of
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.

2017201920202021202220232024
Listed5535444
Joined··+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed··20100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Communities Moving Forward’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Communities Moving Forward's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Communities Moving Forward

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Communities Moving Forward: 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 Communities Moving Forward?
Communities Moving Forward (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,100 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($7,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Communities Moving Forward have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,100 in grants to Communities Moving Forward.
Who is the largest funder of Communities Moving Forward?
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Communities Moving Forward 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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