California · Nonprofit
HELP OF OJAI INC
HELP OF OJAI INC (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,873,912 to it, the largest being OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION ($705,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Help of Ojai Inc does
Mission
Help of Ojai's (the Organization) mission is to combine community and individual resources to respond to the identified, unmet basic human needs of the Ojai Valley residents. The Organization is dedicated to assisting Ojai Valley citizens through various programs, including Home Delivered Meals, hot noon congregate meal, various supportive services and local travel. In addition, the Organization runs the local homeless service center and low-income assistance program. Help of Ojai's primary goal is to meet basic needs with 65% of its efforts being targeted at providing food, shelter and access to medical care. On the other hand, 20%, 11% and 4% of Help of Ojai's efforts are targeted at providing case management, support services and activities-based programs, respectively.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
VALLEY OUTREACH The program offers resource and referral services to housed low-income residents of the Ojai Valley. In 2024/2025, VO provided 3,648 brown bag lunches for clients who are unsheltered, provided 400 boxes to families who are food insecure, and assisted 121 families in receiving subsidized energy, such as gas and electric services. In 2024/2025, Valley Outreach served around 3,045 clients.
$379,963 spent25% of program spendingHOME DELIVERED MEALS - Hot meals on a daily basis to seniors or other qualified; delivered by volunteers.In 2024/2025 Help of Ojai served approx. 22,066 hot meals to seniors in the Ojai Valley, of which 15% were congregate meals and 85% were home delivered meals.
$294,229 spent19% of program spending2nd HELPINGS - Thrift store outlet used for merchandise sold to the community and provide volunteer activities for seniors. In 2024/2025, 47 volunteers served the community by providing goods to low-income families, as well as the previously homeless, who are establishing first-time households.
$247,713 spent16% of program spendingTRANSPORTATION - Provide transportation to/from seniors' homes to the market, doctor, etc. Volunteers drive and donations are received. In 2024/2025, Help of Ojai provided around 6,400 rides to 161 seniors.
$192,722 spent13% of program spendingDONATION CENTER- Donations are received, sorted, cleaned, and sent to the 2nd HELPings Thrift Store or programs through the donation center.
$141,470 spent9% of program spendingWEST CAMPUS - Leased County property used for Senior Nutrition, 2nd HELPings donation processing and rental revenue.
$140,520 spent9% of program spendingSENIOR ACTIVITIES - General recreational and educational activities were provided for over 1,588 seniors at the Montgomery Street location. In 2024/2025 Help of Ojai's Montgomery Street hosted an average of 11 different weekly activity groups.
$118,053 spent8% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,514,670.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.8M (+63%).
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 12% · 2018 7% · 2019 11% · 2020 48% · 2021 62% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of HELP OF OJAI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jayn Walter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $211k → $223k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 HELP OF OJAI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
HELP OF OJAI INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
36% 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 HELP OF OJAI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 26% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 50% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of HELP OF OJAI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
96% of HELP OF OJAI 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. $651k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HELP OF OJAI INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HELP OF OJAI 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 HELP OF OJAI 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 HELP OF OJAI INC?
- HELP OF OJAI INC (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,873,912 to it, the largest being OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION ($705,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELP OF OJAI INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,873,912 in grants to HELP OF OJAI INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP OF OJAI INC?
- OTIS & BETTINA CHANDLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $705,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP OF OJAI 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing