California · Nonprofit
CONCERN AMERICA
CONCERN AMERICA (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,199,885 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($426,246). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Concern America does
Mission
Concern America is a globally focused community organization that provides long-term, community-based development and support to economically improverished communities throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Field program: Concern America trains local populations in health, education, environmental health (appropriate technology) and income generation. The emphasis is on the transference of skills to the local people and thus the creation of opportunity - seen as more of a permanent solution rather than just the placement of resources into impoverished regions. Concern America's field personnel live in the communities where they work, serving for at least two years for a minimal stipend. The countries in which Concern America currently works are mexico, guatemala and colombia.
$666,976 spent$23,444 earned by the program69% of program spendingCraft program: in the united states, Concern America sells crafts made in cooperatives where the organization works in its field program. These products are marketed using the values of fair trade. The craft program serves several functions. It provides direct assistance to families in such ways as dependable markets and fair prices which reinforce self reliance and initiative. Since many producers have difficulty obtaining employment, handcraft production can be done at home, allowing mothers to earn a living while caring for their children. In addition if artisans can earn a decent living from handcraft production, traditional artforms are honored and preserved.
$183,660 spent$39,216 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation program: in the united states, Concern America's education program infuses a global perspective into justice education with individuals, community groups, local churches and schools.
$115,996 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $966,632.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $608k to $1.0M (+73%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of CONCERN AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
John Straw
Executive director
Board chair
Stacey Clinesmith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $44k → $174k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CONCERN AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
CONCERN AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 CONCERN AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 43% · 2021 55% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of CONCERN AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of CONCERN AMERICA'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 $486k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside California, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
CONCERN AMERICA is better cushioned than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONCERN AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $15
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CONCERN AMERICA
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 CONCERN AMERICA: 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 CONCERN AMERICA?
- CONCERN AMERICA (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,199,885 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($426,246). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONCERN AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,199,885 in grants to CONCERN AMERICA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCERN AMERICA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $426,246 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCERN AMERICA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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