California · Nonprofit
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $76k
What Friday Night Live-San Luis Obispo does
Mission
Youth in Friday Night Live programs will experience the following:1) A safe environment Physical Safety - To feel safe physically, free from the risk of harm. Emotional Safety - To feel safe emotionally, to feel like they can be who they are. 2) Opportunities for community engagement Knowledge of Community - to learn about their community and its resources. Interaction/Interface with the Community - to interact and work with community members. Communication with the Community - to communicate about the program or youth issues. Contribution to the Community - to give back and serve their community. 3) Opportunities for leadership and advocacy Decision-Making and Governance - to participate in decision-making and occupy leadership roles, such as staff or board roles. Youth Voice - to learn to express their opinions constructively and to hear those of others. Action - to take action on issues or projects they care about outside of the program, in the community, at school. 4) Opportunities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Friday Night Live program is designed for high school-aged youth. Activities are organized by youth to appeal to youth. Dances, haunted houses, community service and social action activities, movie nights, and participation in advocacy for safe and healthy environments these, are just some of the activities that FNL youth both participate in and organize. One of the most distinguishing aspects of Friday Night Live is youth involvement in mentoring. In FNL, high school-aged youth can act as mentors and tutors to middle school and elementary school students. FNL mentoring activities provide opportunities for young people to engage in ongoing, mutually beneficial, caring relationships which strengthen young people to face today's challenges.
$4,044 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,044.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $63k to $71k (+13%).
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.
0% of FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Robert Cudworth
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO's revenue fell 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO?
- FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE-SAN LUIS OBISPO 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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