California · Nonprofit
Consider The Homeless
Consider The Homeless (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,189 to it, the largest being MIRIAM H MERIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Consider The Homeless runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alameda County Community Food Banklocalportfolio match
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared funders
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
42% of Consider The Homeless’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $99k → $27k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Consider The Homeless’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
Consider The Homeless leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 88% · 2022 97% · 2023 94% — 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
Consider The Homeless draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Alameda County Community Food Banklocalportfolio matchCA · funds 336 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- White Pony Expressportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Episcopal Impact Fund FKA Episcopal Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Justice Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solanoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha's Kitchenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lava Maeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Balay Ko Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollywood Food Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Consider The Homeless
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Consider The Homeless: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Consider The Homeless?
- Consider The Homeless (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,189 to it, the largest being MIRIAM H MERIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Consider The Homeless have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $235,189 in grants to Consider The Homeless, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Consider The Homeless?
- MIRIAM H MERIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Consider The Homeless 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing