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FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS

FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$74k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$42k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Friends of Litter4tokens does

Mission

Instill cleanliness thru incentive

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Litter4tokens and Petco are running an initiative for schools. The pupils collect recyclable materials which are then collected and sold, with all money raised going to tokens.

    $47,018 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,018.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2023 Revenue 233 ($34k) Expenses 173 ($22k) Net assets 658 ($15k)2024 Revenue 502 ($74k) Expenses 378 ($47k) Net assets 1834 ($42k)
202220232024
Revenue (502)Expenses (378)Net assets (1834)Peer revenue range

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 $15k to $42k (+177%).

$2k
$15k
$42k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’22
$13k
’23
$27k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
'25*
total
Sea Huggerunclassified
$6k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS’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 LITTER4TOKENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)124% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS: 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 LITTER4TOKENS?
FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS?
CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LITTER4TOKENS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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