California · Nonprofit
CRI-HELP INC
CRI-HELP INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,901 to it, the largest being George T Pfleger Foundation ($257,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $50M
What Cri-Help Inc does
Mission
Substance use disorder treatment
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1971, cri-help has been a leader in effective drug and alcohol treatment in southern california. Our mission is fulfilled through integrated programs, including detoxification, residential rehabilitation, aftercare, and drug-free living, offered in english and spanish. Services are delivered in safe, supportive environments and enhanced by grief counseling, educational and vocational support, and 12-step program participation. All staff are certified in substance counseling under licensed clinicians' supervision. We also maintain one of southern california's most dynamic alumni programs, with over 400 volunteers and alumni aiding client transitions to community living.
$21,913,056 spent$28,690,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $21,913,056.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $23M to $51M (+124%).
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: 2017 58% · 2024 47% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Jack Bernstein
CEO (chair of board)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $55k → $1k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CRI-HELP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 8 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
CRI-HELP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 89% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of CRI-HELP INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101 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.
Organizations like CRI-HELP INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- I-Adarp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRI-HELP INC: 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 CRI-HELP INC?
- CRI-HELP INC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $317,901 to it, the largest being George T Pfleger Foundation ($257,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRI-HELP INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $317,901 in grants to CRI-HELP INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRI-HELP INC?
- George T Pfleger Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $257,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRI-HELP INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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