California · Nonprofit
FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION
FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,000 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 792 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $100k → $503k.
From the IRS filings of FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION’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
FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2017 50% · 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Traders4acauseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gabriel & Claudia Navarro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Esperanza Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rajendra and Pratibha Modi Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
- FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,000 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $630,000 in grants to FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION?
- THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUEL FREEDOM FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing