California · Nonprofit
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,098,134 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,648,840). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Family Assistance Ministries does
Mission
Family Assistance Ministries is a faith-based charitable non-profit organization assisting those in need in southern orange county with resources for food, shelter, and personalized counsel and aid, helping clients bridge the gap from dependency to self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hunger prevention food pantry: emergency and ongoing nutritious food assistance is provided to families with children, seniors, and individuals who are hungry. The food is part of their overall financial plan toward self-sufficiency. This program is made possible by our 5-days a week, fresh rescues from local grocery stores, usda food, second harvest food bank, and food donations from community partners such as churches, businesses, civic organizations, schools, scouts, and individuals. In fy 2024/25, we collected and distributed $3.9m worth of food. (continued on schedule o)while providing this nourishment and helping to meet families' basic needs, fam offers holistic case management support, which enables us to customize their weekly grocery pick-ups, adding diapers, wipes, baby food, personal care products, kitchen supplies, and other essential items, as needed. Through our individualized work with clients, we also can assist them with household budgeting, housing linkages, resource referrals, and care coordination to help families move from crisis to stability.
$5,614,728 spentof which $4,190,280 as grants76% of program spendingHomeless prevention services: diversion and prevention are key components of fam's homeless prevention program. Case management including financial counsel, rental assistance, utility assistance, transportation vouchers, car repair, car registration, back-to-school supplies, clothing, job search coaching, senior-specific assistance, medical, dental, and prescription assistance are examples of services that are provided to clients seeking a hand-up. All services are provided as a part of an overall financial stabilizing plan. Bills are paid directly to service providers. Fam expanded its outreach by opening a second resource center that will allow for clients to receive services closer to home. (continued on schedule o)clients can now access services at fam's two resource centers and three satellite locations. Also new for fam are the services we now provide to assist medical clients with support services such as housing navigation for those who are unhoused and seeking permanent housing, housing deposits to help with security deposits, first months rent and household set-up, housing sustainability to help with landlord relations and referrals for other services needed, and…
$1,016,028 spentof which $303,544 as grants$2,973 earned by the program14% of program spendingFam provides permanent supportive housing (psh) for those experiencing chronic homelessness and have a diagnosed mental or physical disability. Fam is the master lease holder on these scattered site apartments. Clients are provided food, personal care items, tenant education, connection to a health home, a support team through case management and wrap around services.
$436,612 spentof which $271,079 as grants$19,855 earned by the program6% of program spendingFamily house: family house serves a critical role as the only emergency shelter for unhoused families in south orange county. The program safely houses single dads, single moms, dual parent households, their children and pregnant women, offering them healthy food choices and connecting them to health insurance and a health home. Developmental screenings were offered for children 5 and under. Financial counseling, job search coaching, and other life skills classes are also available. Personal care items, clothing, diapers, back-to-school supplies, holiday gifts, an after-school homework program that follows them when they move to permanent housing and referrals for other social services needed are also provided. Fam instituted a financial literacy program to assist clients as they transition to their next housing opportunity. The goal is to help clients graduate into their own stable housing as quicky as possible.
$272,880 spentof which $31,370 as grants4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,340,248.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $8.7M (+156%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 31% · 2022 40% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Anna Conti
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jay Pederson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $454k → $1.5M.
18 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
79% 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 FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 39% · 2019 57% · 2020 41% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 51% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.8M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES's revenue grew 94% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: 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 FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES?
- FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,098,134 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,648,840). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $7,098,134 in grants to FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,648,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 75 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