California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC
FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,643 to it, the largest being WAKE FAMILY CHARITABLE FDTN - CASH ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Friends of Avila Pier Foap Inc does
Mission
Friends of Avila Pier was organized for the sole purpose of fundraising to assist the Port San Luis Harbor District in efforts to preserve, rehabilitate and maintain the Avila Pier in Avila Beach, California. By conducting this activity, the organization is helping to preserve the marine heritage and character of the Port San Luis Harbor District for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Direct fundraising activities: Printing, office supplies and graphic design services for promotional materials and donor communications; and processing fees for donations received via the internet.
$314 spent18% of program spendingWebsite maintenance for solicitation of funds via the internet
$1,473 spent82% of program spendingGrant to Port San Luis Harbor District (PSLHD) to augment grants and other PSLHD funds designated for Stage 1 of the Harbor District's repair plan for the Avila Pier. This grant was needed by PSLHD in order to continue pile driving in the summer of 2024.
$0 spentof which $100,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,787.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $93k to $199k (+114%).
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.
95% of FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $32 → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OF AVILA PIER FOAP 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
FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 91% · 2023 67% — 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 OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143 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 OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP 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.
Public support
65%
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 OF AVILA PIER FOAP 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 OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC?
- FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,643 to it, the largest being WAKE FAMILY CHARITABLE FDTN - CASH ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $71,643 in grants to FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC?
- WAKE FAMILY CHARITABLE FDTN - CASH is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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