California · Nonprofit
EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP
EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,236,175 to it, the largest being The Burt Family Foundation ($1,890,438). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP's revenue grew 26% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruthshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Seeding the Future Foundationportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2023 13% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $723k → $665k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP’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
EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 57% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Billingsley Foundationcharle & Ruthshared funderslocalportfolio matchMO · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 94 organizations that share your funders · funds 157 organizations near you
- Seeding the Future Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stern Leichter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Free America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald C and Elizabeth M Dickinson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hmc Designing Futures Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lopker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoag Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maria Mandico and Benet Marquet Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Confluence Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Legler Benbough Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $199k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$199k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP?
- EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,236,175 to it, the largest being The Burt Family Foundation ($1,890,438). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,236,175 in grants to EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP?
- The Burt Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,890,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUATION COLLABORATIVE CORP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing