California · Nonprofit
GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION
GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,240 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $702k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $99k
What Growthskills Foundation does
Mission
To assist individuals, churches, and other groups to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to promote growth and healthy relationships which will improve how individuals live, love, work and relate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Growthskills Foundation (gsf) provided seven 5-day workshops and related materials which assists individuals to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to promote growth and healthy relationships which will improve how they live, love, work, and relate.
$620,400 spent$479,075 earned by the program86% of program spendingGrowth365 is offered to workshop attendees. The program allows participants to continue their growth (I.e., further develop the knowledge and experiences gained at the workshops) with their team members (from the workshop) and a coach (who is paid and secured by gsf) via a monthly 90- minute online meeting.
$100,865 spent$71,280 earned by the program14% of program spendingGrowth4living is a small group curriculum based upon the growth model taught at the workshops. This program was developed because gsf realizes that not everyone can attend a workshop and/or participate in growth365. Under the program, church members are invited to participate in a monthly meeting that contains both a lecture and process groups. Additionally, the participants do homework and have meetings with their homework partners during the month. The program lasts for 8 consecutive months.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $721,265.
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 2018 to 2019, from $475k to $629k (+32%).
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.
21% of GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 of the last 8 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $18k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GROWTHSKILLS 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
GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION'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. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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
GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 GROWTHSKILLS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION?
- GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,240 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $172,240 in grants to GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWTHSKILLS FOUNDATION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWTHSKILLS 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 4 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