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DIGNITY GROUP

DIGNITY GROUP (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,087 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN RONALD BERNSTEIN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$180k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$217k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Dignity Group does

Mission

Educate public and assist in planning for persons with special needs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Completed 27 life care plans, approximately 45 in process and 52 new starts

    $101,655 spent$136,671 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,655.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($80k) Expenses 100 ($114k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2018 Revenue 127 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 86 ($73k)2019 Revenue 149 ($119k) Expenses 90 ($102k) Net assets 105 ($89k)2020 Revenue 116 ($92k) Expenses 88 ($100k) Net assets 96 ($82k)2021 Revenue 192 ($153k) Expenses 123 ($139k) Net assets 113 ($96k)2022 Revenue 191 ($153k) Expenses 145 ($164k) Net assets 99 ($84k)2023 Revenue 142 ($114k) Expenses 86 ($97k) Net assets 118 ($100k)2024 Revenue 209 ($167k) Expenses 95 ($108k) Net assets 187 ($158k)2025 Revenue 226 ($180k) Expenses 107 ($122k) Net assets 256 ($217k)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (107)Net assets (256)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $330k to $79k (−76%).

$330k
$79k
$90k
$165k
$169k
$192k
$166k
$217k
$279k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of DIGNITY GROUP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
−$12k
’18
$16k
’19
−$7k
’20
$14k
’21
−$12k
’22
$16k
’23
$58k
’24
$58k
’25
28
months of
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

Grady Jennings

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

201820242025
Listed444
Joined··+1
No longer listed··1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $8k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 DIGNITY GROUP’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

DIGNITY GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 DIGNITY GROUP.

40%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 83% · 2020 70% · 2021 81% · 2022 81% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.

“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 DIGNITY GROUP's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DIGNITY GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DIGNITY GROUP

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

66%

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 DIGNITY GROUP: 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 DIGNITY GROUP?
DIGNITY GROUP (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,087 to it, the largest being THE MARVIN RONALD BERNSTEIN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DIGNITY GROUP have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $75,087 in grants to DIGNITY GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DIGNITY GROUP?
THE MARVIN RONALD BERNSTEIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DIGNITY GROUP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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