California · Nonprofit
Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc
Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($84,841). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $435k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc does
Mission
Leveraging the power of collaboration to prevent and heal childhood trauma.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Alliance exists to connect local organizations with each other and valuable resources, mobilize the community to make a difference for vulnerable kids and equip people to support kids in trauma-informed ways. In 2025 we worked directly with 115 local agencies, nonprofits and churches to serve at-risk kids and families in the Greater Sacramento Area. Through the Alliance Love in Action Program which includes donation drives, an emergency supply closet and a custom online needs database, 33,394 items were donated to meet the needs of 10,553 local kids in need through 59 different agencies/nonprofits. The Alliance also furnished 104 safe spaces (either bedrooms or full apartments) for youth entering or aging out of foster care, refugee families or families in crisis. In 2025, The Alliance also provided 1,278 hours of parent training, had 638 leaders and caregivers attend community workshops and 138 families and providers supporting 4,595 kids/teens were equipped with new tools at their annual childhood trauma conference.
$420,612 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $420,612.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $29k to $113k (+284%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 4%. 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
10 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc’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
Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 64%; 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 Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 37% — 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
25% of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like Defending the Cause Regional Alliance 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Defending the Cause Regional Alliance 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 Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc?
- Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,986 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($84,841). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $246,986 in grants to Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Defending the Cause Regional Alliance Inc?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Defending the Cause Regional Alliance 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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