California · Nonprofit
Free From Hardship La Inc
Free From Hardship La Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,635 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($95,635). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Free From Hardship La Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Social Justice Partners Los Angelesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Christ-Centered Ministrieslocalportfolio match
- California Calls Education Fundshared funders
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.
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: 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Free From Hardship La Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% 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.
reserve
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 Free From Hardship La Inc’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
Free From Hardship La Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Free From Hardship La Inc.
“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 Free From Hardship La Inc'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.
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Social Justice Partners Los Angelesshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · funds 96 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Christ-Centered Ministrieslocalportfolio matchCA · funds 179 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- California Calls Education Fundshared fundersCA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Ward Economic Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ebell of Los Angeles Rest Cottage Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McMillen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollywood Food Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Regional Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residencesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sweet Geeks 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.
Organizations like Free From Hardship La Inc
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
89% 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 Free From Hardship La Inc: 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 Free From Hardship La Inc?
- Free From Hardship La Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,635 to it, the largest being United Way Inc ($95,635). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Free From Hardship La Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $125,635 in grants to Free From Hardship La Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Free From Hardship La Inc?
- United Way Inc is the largest funder on record, with $95,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Free From Hardship La Inc 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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