California · Nonprofit
DRIVEN TO SERVE
DRIVEN TO SERVE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $-3636
What Driven to Serve does
Mission
To provide scholarships to underrepresented individuals seeking employment in the public safety careers and create career pathways for public safety jobs in high schools
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Initial year of this start up organization during COVID.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
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
Board chair
Jennifer Schmid
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DRIVEN TO SERVE’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 DRIVEN TO SERVE's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 DRIVEN TO SERVE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DRIVEN TO SERVE: 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 DRIVEN TO SERVE?
- DRIVEN TO SERVE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRIVEN TO SERVE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to DRIVEN TO SERVE.
- Who is the largest funder of DRIVEN TO SERVE?
- CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRIVEN TO SERVE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing