California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE POOR
FRIENDS OF THE POOR (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,242 to it, the largest being KT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC ($262,534). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $325k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $915k
- Net assets
- $157k
What Friends of the Poor does
Mission
To aid the poor
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Friends of the Poor began construction on the Village of Maryhaven in 2011, and dedicated it to the care of orphans as a self-sustaining complex in Minna, Nigeria. Due to extreme poverty and high mortality rates, many children are orphaned or sold into slavery where they are overworked, mistreated or sexually abused. Here, they are protected, loved, nurtured and educated. Farm crops and animals provide a renewable food supply. The starting class numbered 200, the school has now grown to 400 students. The following components were built and maintained by FRIENDS OF THE POOR: 1 - Stella Maris Academy, a K-6th grade boarding school (all operating costs, including teachers' salaries, are funded by Friends of the Poor) and middle and high school classrooms; 2 - Trade School - Job training augments the high school curriculum, allowing students to graduate with marketable skills or trades. Other accomplishments in Africa are: Science Center, a state-of-the-art addition to the Kupiec Academy for Girls (boarding school built by Friends of the Poor which saw its first graduating class in 2015); Job Training Centers, built for young mothers struggling to raise their children and support…
$218,827 spentof which $218,583 as grants59% of program spendingCasa de los Pobres is an urban relief center in Tijuana, which offers food, medical care, clothing, and educational aid to the very poor. With assistance from FRIENDS OF THE POOR, Casa serves more than 275,000 hot meals per year, and distributes 30,000 bags of groceries. More than 15,000 people annually receive needed medical attention. Casa de los Pobres also housed and fed 120 Haitian migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.The Hospital San Ignacio de Loyola is an in-patient mental health treatment center near Rosarito, Mexico, that is an extension of the Casa de los Pobres. It was established in 1998 in response to the immense need for psychiatric and substance abuse services among the poor, for whom there were literally no services available. The Hospital suspended operations in 2019. Funds are being collected for its reopening.
$149,227 spentof which $149,000 as grants41% of program spendingIn August, 2019, in partnership with St. Bonaventure School and Mission, Friends of the Poor completed the building of a 22,000 Square Foot Multi-Purpose Sports Facility that includes 1) Larger Basketball Court - with Bleacher space for 400 people, 2) Smaller Basketball Court - with Bleacher space for 200 people, and 3) Multi-Purpose area for Volleyball, Games, Concession Stand and Office Space in the rural community of Thoreau, New Mexico. 80% of Thoreaus 4,500 residents are Navajo, a proud, dignified, yet struggling people who have a 40% unemployment rate. Issues of suicide, depression, substance abuse, and hopelessness afflict numerous Navajo teenagers, as well as many adults. The center serves the community and its residents.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $368,054.
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 2017 to 2018, from $96k to $229k (+138%).
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.
98% of FRIENDS OF THE POOR’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 held at 5 funders, grant income rose $61k → $66k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 THE POOR’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 THE POOR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
25% 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 OF THE POOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 73% · 2019 61% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 29% · 2023 38% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of FRIENDS OF THE POOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
FRIENDS OF THE POOR draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 OF THE POOR's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE POOR
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE POOR: 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 THE POOR?
- FRIENDS OF THE POOR (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $915,242 to it, the largest being KT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC ($262,534). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE POOR have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $915,242 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE POOR, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE POOR?
- KT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $262,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE POOR 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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