California · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY
FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,567 to it, the largest being G for Kids Inc ($42,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $323k
What Friends of Tulare County does
Mission
Friends of Tulare County is dedicated to promoting the safety, health, and well-being of all residents of Tulare County and strives to assist underrepresented and disadvantaged populations of all ethnicities and cultures through donations, charitable giving, and grant funding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Tulare County Animal Shelter focuses on good adoptions. As our mission statement indicates: "We are committed to reducing animal overpopulation by promoting adoptions, advocating for the welfare of animals by operating spay/neuter and humane education programs, encouraging responsible pet ownership and demonstrating respect for all living things." With this in mind, the shelter staff and volunteers advocate for good placement of our animals.
$12,877 spent27% of program spendingThe Tulare County Children's Welfare Services Toy Drive is conducted every December and it provides gifts to Tulare County children in need, particularly those children within the Child Welfare System (CWS) more commonly known as Child Protective Services. Unfortunately, many of these children are in the CWS system due to child abuse or neglect, but in all cases these children undergo the trauma of disruption to their family. The Children's Toy Drive serves 1,330 children who are in the care of Tulare County Child Welfare Service, plus 150 Resource Families, as well as 6 Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children youth placed here in Tulare County.
$24,497 spent51% of program spendingThe purpose of the Tulare County Museum is to protect, preserve, and promote understanding of Tulare County's past and its place in the future by providing the community with innovative, diverse, and engaging exhibits and events. We strive to be a community center where all guests are welcome and encouraged to learn about, and engage with, our local history in a variety of ways. Donations to the Tulare County Museum will be utilized to support a wide range of initiatives, improvements, and events that include, but are not limited to, restoration projects, the purchase of items to assist in preserving the collection, and expenses related to events for the community. Funding will help bridge any gaps where funding, supplies, or resources are otherwise unavailable.
$7,242 spent15% of program spendingOther Program Services
$3,585 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,201.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $207k to $266k (+29%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 TULARE COUNTY’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 TULARE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 TULARE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 90% · 2023 65% — 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
75% of FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY's funders are still giving 1 year 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
85% of FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TULARE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY
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
100%
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 TULARE COUNTY: 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 TULARE COUNTY?
- FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,567 to it, the largest being G for Kids Inc ($42,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $77,567 in grants to FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY?
- G for Kids Inc is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF TULARE COUNTY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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