California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS-CARE
FRIENDS-CARE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,500 to it, the largest being Oates Family Foundation ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Friends-Care does
Mission
The organization provides personal and social services to at-risk children whose parents tend to be incarcerated.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization provides personal and socialtend to be incarcerated.
$31,302 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,302.
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 2021 to 2022, from $7k to $68k (+827%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS-CARE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dorothy Montgomery
Executive director
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FRIENDS-CARE’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
FRIENDS-CARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 75% · 2021 81% · 2022 75% · 2023 80% — 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
FRIENDS-CARE draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
FRIENDS-CARE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,126 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,126 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like FRIENDS-CARE
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS-CARE: 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 FRIENDS-CARE?
- FRIENDS-CARE (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,500 to it, the largest being Oates Family Foundation ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS-CARE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $60,500 in grants to FRIENDS-CARE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS-CARE?
- Oates Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS-CARE 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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