California · Nonprofit
Friends of Families
Friends of Families (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 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
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $28k
What Friends of Families does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose is to raise funds which are then distributed to other localcharities, including charities that benefit children,childrens sports, seniors in need, and the homeless.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Friends of Families in 2023-2024 donated funds to support children, education, seniors, the handicapped, youth programs, and the homeless in the cities of Stanton, Anaheim and Buena Park. Friends of Families has coordinated and helped to donate food including Meat, Produce, Fruit, Vegetables, and non-perishable items to The City of Anaheim in the past 12 months. See the letter below from the City of Anaheim. Friends of Families has partnered with Councilwoman Denise Barnes to ensure that the Seniors in West and Central Anaheim living in mobile home parks were given perishable and non-perishable food twice a week from January to present representing over 3,850 meals. Friends of Families donated 625,000+ diapers to Anaheim, Buena Park, and Stanton families from January though December at various community food distributions. Friends of Families facilitated a donation of 2,500 frozen turkeys for a Thanksgiving food drive in the City of Stanton Friends of Families Facilitated a Christmas Food and Toy distribution in the City of Stanton that served 1,500 families and 3,000 children received a new toy.
$51,626 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,626.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $21k to $30k (+44%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $16.
1 of 2 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 Friends of Families’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Friends of Families'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.
Organizations like Friends of Families
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Families: 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 Families?
- Friends of Families (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 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 Friends of Families have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16 in grants to Friends of Families, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Families?
- 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 Friends of Families 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 2 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