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FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme

FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,206,721 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($995,747). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$1.5M
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme does

Mission

FIERCE Advcocates amplifies the voices of parents/caregivers of color and partners with them to advance equitable access and opportunities for all youth to have quality education and all families to achieve emotional and physical well-being.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. FIERCE Advocates' CoCo Doula program provide doula services to Black birthing people in Contra Costa County. Seventy-four babies (74) were born in the program in 2024 and FIERCE Advocates hired five graduates of the 2023 training program as part-time doulas to support birthing families.

    $413,162 spentof which $907 as grants
    34% of program spending
  2. FIERCE Advocates' Health and Wellness Program, hosted robust programming including our life coaching program, peer support groups that created community in a safe environment that cultivates wellness and emotional well-being. Additionally we hosted family wellness days, that included arts and crafts and wellness classes and outdoor activities such as community hikes. FIERCE Advocates launched a pilot project called Brilliance of Brotherhood that included a co-mentorship and learning environment for men and boys to learn from each other in an emotionally safe space.

    $314,895 spentof which $764 as grants
    26% of program spending
  3. Leadership Development & General Program

    $253,791 spentof which $1,748 as grants
    21% of program spending
  4. FIERCE Advocates Policy Advocacy and Organizing Program relaunched the Community Educational Leadership Institute (CELI) graduating 9 women of which 7 CELI graduates taking steps toward leadership, with 3 appointed to school committees and 4 applying for community advisory roles. The PAO team educated parents and multiple schools on how to best engage in their child's education and on policies and practices that support all students having a quality education.

    $246,994 spentof which $1,081 as grants
    20% of program spending
  5. Partner Program

    $33,132 earned by the program

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,228,842.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($759k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 54 ($1.3M) Expenses 206 ($1.6M) Net assets 88 ($1.5M)
20232024
Revenue (54)Expenses (206)Net assets (88)Peer revenue range

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 $1.8M to $1.7M (−4%).

$1.8M
$1.7M
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 16% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’23
−$216k
’24
9.8
months of
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

Jasmine Jones

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed78
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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

FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

76% 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 FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme.

45%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

70% of FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme'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 $655k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from California funders.

CT
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−46% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 16%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme?
FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,206,721 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($995,747). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,206,721 in grants to FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme?
TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $995,747 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 15 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