California · Nonprofit
Harbor House Ministries Inc
Harbor House Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,855,679 to it, the largest being Lowell Berry Foundation ($329,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $910k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $959k
What Harbor House Ministries Inc does
Mission
Harbor House is a Christian community development organization that provides a safe place for opportunities, resources, and relationships to be shared so that all families in Oakland can flourish. Since 1972, Harbor House has faithfully served thousands of families through high quality programs that nurture the heart, soul, mind and body. We offer after-school tutoring and enrichment, summer day camp, leadership development, food and clothing distribution, and spiritual formation opportunities.Harbor House was founded by Olive Freeman, a fourth grade teacher in Oakland who noticed that some of her students lacked basic necessities. Compelled by her faith, Olive responded by gathering food, clothing, and books and handing them out from the trunk of her car. What started out as one woman responding to needs in the community, is now a multi-faceted community development organization offering hope to hundreds of families each year. HARBOR HOUSE IS LOCATED IN THE SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT OF OAK
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
After-school enrichment program (september may)in the afternoons, we warmly open our doors to elementary and middle school students for our high quality after-school program. At harbor house, they are served a nutricious supper and offered a quiet and safe place to do their homework, participate in high quality enrichment activities (art, choir, cooking, soccer, and more), play outdoor games, and develop positive relationships with caring mentors. Teens from the community serve as interns running the elementary program, while learning valuable leadership skills. [continued on schedule o]
$599,477 spentof which $2,600 as grants$16,949 earned by the program100% of program spendingYouth Internship ProgramOur after-school program is solidly rooted in the principles of youth development which state that youth do best when they are safe, have opportunities to develop positive relationships with peers and adults, have opportunities for involvement that utilize their inherent gifts, and have access to enriching activities that expand their horizons. At Harbor House, teens who are part of our Youth Leadership Program (YLP) have opportunities to experience all of these and more. [Continued on Schedule O]
Emergency food and clothingin collaboration with the alameda county food bank, harbor house serves as an emergency food distribution site on tuesday mornings and thursday afternoons. The emergency food box program offers a three-day supply of fresh, nutritious food to anyone in need. We also offer a children's clothing thrift store for members of the community needing clothes.
[Continued from Form 990 Page 2]Summer Day Camp (June July)Our summer day camp runs Monday through Friday for five weeks in the summertime, offering elementary students a safe, fun, and enriching place to be. Each summer has a different theme that sets the stage for the camp. Day campers are treated to skits, Bible stories, songs, crafts, and memory verse to reinforce the themes. They also take special field trips each Friday which help them to get out of their neighborhood and experience a bit of adventure.
Youth Internship Program [Continued from Form 990 Page 2]Through YLP, we aim to develop thriving and competent teens who are growing into their potential and becoming agents of change in their community. We recognize that many teens in our community need a safe place where they can feel valued and cared for while gaining valuable life skills, receive academic encouragement, and develop positive relationships. YLP provides that to local high school students looking for a linked learning opportunity in the field of education.
Other programstutor the tigerstutor the tigers provides a one-on-one volunteer tutor to struggling readers at franklin elementary school every afternoon on the school campus.holiday programsharbor house offers several holiday programs so that low-income families can also celebrate and experience the warmth and cheer of the season. During the weeks of thanksgiving and christmas, harbor house offers families food for a full holiday dinner. The harbor house christmas store is an opportunity for low-income parents to purchase, wrap, and take home new toys and gifts to the children at a greatly reduced price.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $599,477.
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 2019 to 2020, from $517k to $699k (+35%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 8% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Harbor House Ministries Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Kacie Stratton
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $51k → $321k.
8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Harbor House Ministries Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 funders by total. 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
Harbor House Ministries Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
52% 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 Harbor House Ministries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 51% · 2019 59% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 18% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of Harbor House Ministries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
80% of Harbor House Ministries Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $585k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Harbor House Ministries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Harbor House Ministries Inc
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Harbor House Ministries Inc: 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 Harbor House Ministries Inc?
- Harbor House Ministries Inc (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,855,679 to it, the largest being Lowell Berry Foundation ($329,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Harbor House Ministries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,855,679 in grants to Harbor House Ministries Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Harbor House Ministries Inc?
- Lowell Berry Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $329,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Harbor House Ministries Inc 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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