California · Nonprofit
CURLS COILS & CROWNS
CURLS COILS & CROWNS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ($159,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $321k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $0
What Curls Coils & Crowns does
Mission
Curls, Coils, & Crowns is culturally relevant, gender-responsive nonprofit organization serving the Inland Empire community of Southern California. Since 2016, the organization has been dedicated to enriching the lives of school-aged Black girls by focusing on self-love, self-image, and self-efficacy. Through its flagship "Wear Your C.R.O.W.N.' program, Curls, Coils & Crowns provides school-based sessions that incorporate African-centered lessons and social-emotional wellness strategies. These sessions aim to foster self-awareness, positive self-image, and a sense of identity among participants. The organization's commitment is to disrupt systems that hinder Black girls from achieving greatness by creating safe, affirming environments where they can learn to love themselves unapologetically.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Curls, Coils & Crowns operated the Wear Your C.R.O.W.N. school-based programThe program was delivered through contracts with local schools and districts and consisted of weekly sessions combining culturally relevant curriculum, art-based learning, social-emotional wellness strategies, and African-centered teachings. The programs objective is to improve self-esteem, identity development, and academic engagement.
$18,487 spent$99,987 earned by the program41% of program spendingAs part of its holistic youth wellness framework, the organization provided healthy snacks during weekly program sessions.
$5,012 spent11% of program spendingCCC hosted a series of Community Engagement Events designed to foster family participation, cultural pride, and community awareness. These included themed workshops, hair identity celebrations, and wellness forums.
$3,400 spent8% of program spendingTraining materials Curriculum design Guest speaker honoraria Licensing and memberships Additional program supplies and support services not tied to one primary initiative
$17,676 spent40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,575.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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: 2023 43% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of CURLS COILS & CROWNS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $116k → $84k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CURLS COILS & CROWNS’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
CURLS COILS & CROWNS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CURLS COILS & CROWNS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CURLS COILS & CROWNS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
CURLS COILS & CROWNS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CURLS COILS & CROWNS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 CURLS COILS & CROWNS: 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 CURLS COILS & CROWNS?
- CURLS COILS & CROWNS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ($159,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CURLS COILS & CROWNS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $343,500 in grants to CURLS COILS & CROWNS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CURLS COILS & CROWNS?
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS is the largest funder on record, with $159,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CURLS COILS & CROWNS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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