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DAMIANS LADDER

DAMIANS LADDER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,602 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,602). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$121k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$90k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Damians Ladder does

Mission

Home maintenance for senior citizens

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Home services - 120 households served without charge

    $33,021 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,021.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2025, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2025, 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.

100 = 20252025 Revenue 100 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($58k)2026 Revenue 141 ($121k) Expenses 215 ($90k) Net assets 155 ($90k)
20252026
Revenue (141)Expenses (215)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $58k to $90k (+55%).

$58k
$90k
20252026
Total assets

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.

2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of DAMIANS LADDER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,355 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’25
$32k
’26

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

Chuck Maffia

Board chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DAMIANS LADDER’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DAMIANS LADDER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DAMIANS LADDER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 192 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 192 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like DAMIANS LADDER

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAMIANS LADDER: 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 DAMIANS LADDER?
DAMIANS LADDER (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,602 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($5,602). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DAMIANS LADDER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,602 in grants to DAMIANS LADDER.
Who is the largest funder of DAMIANS LADDER?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAMIANS LADDER 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 FY2026 (financials across 2025–2026), and the filings of 1 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