California · Nonprofit
Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc
Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,953 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($301,800). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $774k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $948k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc does
Mission
Helping neighbors within Sonoma Valley by providing critical safety net services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency response to meet the immediate basic needs of the financially-distressed, most particularly with food, used clothing, infant diapers, rent payments, utility payments, prescription drugs, medical transportation and other basic needs. During 2024, 2,307 families were provided with food either through the food pantry, home delivery, or the Holiday Food Basket program. 290 families received rental assistance. 287 families received assistance with utility bills. 1,086 rides were given to medical appointments with more than 300 of these for dialysis treatment. 42 grants of gasoline assistance given to help clients drive to out-of-town medical appointments. 349 individuals received durable medical equipment like walkers and rollators. 3000 visited our Clothes Closet for gently used clothing and small housewares.
$450,666 spentof which $364,657 as grants96% of program spendingProviding holiday assistance to low income families, seniors, individuals with disabilities, foster and emancipated foster children, the homeless and others in the community who would otherwise be unable to celebrate the holiday season.
$17,390 spentof which $17,390 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,056.
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 $2.0M to $2.7M (+36%).
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: 2020 29% · 2021 13% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $66k → $124k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 In Sonoma Helping Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 68% · 2019 49% · 2020 44% · 2021 35% · 2022 22% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
74% of Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc'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 $248k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $700k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 Friends In Sonoma Helping 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc?
- Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $947,953 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($301,800). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $947,953 in grants to Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $301,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends In Sonoma Helping 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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