California · Nonprofit
FAKS FOUNDATION
FAKS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Faks Foundation does
Mission
The organization provides prosthetics for children in guatemala and honduras.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Faks Foundation provides prosthetics to children in guatemala and honduras. Partner organizations there send faks specific requests for approval. Faks spent 65,000 on requests for 30 new children in 2025,in addition to the 50 children already being followed and supported. This support is not subject to grants.
$65,000 spentof which $65,000 as grants96% of program spendingNonn-program expenses totaled 2,736, which included travel for two board members to honduras and guatemala for site visits and partner meetings. Both board members made donations in cash to fully reimburse the travel expenses. Other expenses were for website development.
$2,736 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,736.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $118k to $123k (+3%).
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.
95% of FAKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $161 → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FAKS FOUNDATION’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
FAKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 FAKS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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
100% of FAKS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
FAKS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FAKS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
97%
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 FAKS FOUNDATION: 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 FAKS FOUNDATION?
- FAKS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $50,668 in grants to FAKS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAKS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAKS FOUNDATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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