California · Nonprofit
CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT (California) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,628,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($34,950,571). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 182
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Core Community Organized Relief Effort does
Mission
We are a crisis response organization that brings immediate aid and recovery to underserved communities across the globe. We empower communities in and beyond crisis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public health response - in 2024, core's covid vaccination activities continued as a part of a broader public health response in georgia and illinois, with the addition of monkeypox, measles, and flu vaccinations. Continuing its disaster response work domestically, core responded to hurricane helene which struck florida, georgia, and north carolina in september 2024, and hurricane milton which struck florida in october 2024.
$12,638,432 spentof which $754,597 as grants39% of program spendingHumanitarian response - humanitarian activities related to the ukraine-russia war continued in ukraine, both for reconstruction of liberated areas with significant damage in the east, and support to idps in the west. Core also scaled up cash programming in sudan, which was beset by huge humanitarian needs following the expansion of civil conflict which began in april 2023. Core responded to hurricane beryl in grenada and jamaica in the summer of 2024, providing immediate relief, and supporting shelter rehabilitation.
$15,809,431 spentof which $10,315,408 as grants$1,033 earned by the program49% of program spendingHaiti programs - programs in haiti include disaster response, youth education, community development, and food security. Its reforestation initiative, which began in 2016, has progressed from planning to implementation phases, supporting smallholder farmers to adapt to the effects of a changing climate and to reverse over 200 years of deforestation in haiti. In 2024, core launched a joint emergency in-kind food assistance program in highly food insecure households in haiti.
$4,011,162 spentof which $1,049,325 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,459,025.
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 2019 to 2020, from $5.2M to $34M (+560%).
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 40% · 2022 42% · 2023 62% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Ann Y Lee
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Sean Penn
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.7M.
42 of 182 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 182 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
CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 32% · 2019 40% · 2020 87% · 2021 16% · 2022 49% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
19% of CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
68% of CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT'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 $21M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 32 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 55 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 55 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.5M on record.
- Agency for International Development$15.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.5M
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 CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Haiti Takes Root · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: 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 CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT?
- CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT (California) receives grants from 182 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,628,039 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($34,950,571). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT have?
- IRS filings report 182 organizations giving $63,628,039 in grants to CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,950,571 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 182 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing