California · Nonprofit
Doors of Change
Doors of Change (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,599 to it, the largest being THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION ($426,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $400k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $352k
What Doors of Change does
Mission
Photocharity addresses youth homeless in san diego by focusing on outreach and trust-building, community-based programming. Serving youth between the ages of 17 and 25, photocharity identifies homeless youth by walking the streets of san diego offering physical support, such as sleeping bags, socks, and water, and inviting these youth to participate in our award-winning music & art program. Participants in the program receive individual or small group instruction on an instrument or art medium of their choice, and develop skill mastery, confidence, a social support network, and a vision that something more may be possible in their lives. Over time, these program participants develop trust in our agency, our staff, and the system, so are much more amenable and eager to be connected to additional community resources. Case management services has been added this year to our program (health care, job placement, mental health/addiction services, housing referral, etc.). Our community-based
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Doors of Change team reaches out to unhoused youth where they are and provides them with access to housing, mental health services, job placement, and college support, as well as clothing and other necessities.Our community-based program is built on several principles: (1) services need to be based on evaluations and customized to the needs of each youth, (2) most, if not all, of the youth we serve have been victimized and traumatized, therefore trauma-informed care is essential to their recovery, (3) hard work, participation and accountability are critical and required, and, (4) the services we offer must be client-centered, with the goals for each participant self-identified and supported by case management.Our goal is to help youth become self-sufficient and therefore partner with over 65 service-providing community organizations that specialize in mental health support, housing and shelter placements, employment opportunities, services for youth with disabilities, addiction treatment and domestic violence support.ASSIST HOMELESS TRANSITIONAL AGE YOUTH(AGES 17 TO 25) ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF GETTING THEM OFF…
$430,692 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $430,692.
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.
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 $583k to $364k (−38%).
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: 2021 26% · 2022 9% · 2023 28% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Doors of Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (38% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Andrew Miner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $49k → $141k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Doors of Change’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Doors of Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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 Doors of Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 77% · 2019 76% · 2020 78% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 39% — 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
38% of Doors of Change's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
99% of Doors of Change's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Doors of Change is better cushioned than half of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Doors of Change
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Doors of Change: 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 Doors of Change?
- Doors of Change (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,224,599 to it, the largest being THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION ($426,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Doors of Change have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,224,599 in grants to Doors of Change, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Doors of Change?
- THOMAS OHANA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $426,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Doors of Change 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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