California · Nonprofit
HELPBERKELEY INC
HELPBERKELEY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TOMKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $59k
What Helpberkeley Inc does
Mission
HelpBerkeley delivers affordable, free, and subsidized meals and groceries to seniors and others vulnerable to COVID-19 in Berkeley and several neighboring cities. It also provides wellness, nutrition, social and other services to underserved businesses and communities in the City of Berkeley and in other communities. In 2025 HelpBerkeley added fire safety and resiliency as an area of focus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In 2025, HelpBerkeley added fire safety and resiliency as an area of focus. We applied for and received two University of California Chancellors Grants to support clearing of flammable materials in the first 5 feet around homes in the Grizzly Peak Mitigation are in Berkeley, CA. We made no expenditures against those grants in 2025, but have planned activities to do so in 2026 and beyond. We also started a new website, BerkeleyFirewise.org to educate the community about fire danger and fire resiliency.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Funded Meals: In 2025, HelpBerkeley procured and home-delivered more than 16,200 free meals or meal equivalents, in the form of groceries or of ready-made meals, for recipients who could not afford them, in Berkeley and neighboring communities. We have a network of 10+ non-profit organizations with whom we work to identify recipients.
$39,578 spent$32,400 earned by the program97% of program spendingHB.Org": In 2025 HB.org began transitioning to a focus on fire safety and resiliency due to the extreme fire danger in parts of Berkeley. We published a website called BerkeleyFirewise.org. We organized an April 25 volunteer brush clearing day with members of local FireWise groups and the University of California Berkeley "Berkeley Project" volunteers. We received as fiscal sponsors two UC Berkeley grants for the purpose of helping residents in need to clear flammable plants and debris per Berkeley's new Ember regulation which requires removal of flammable materials from the first five feet around a house.
$525 spent$22,200 earned by the program1% of program spendingFUD: (For Unlimited Diabetics): HelpBerkeley operates a national diabetes forum, appearing as the #2 or #3 forum in the country when looking at google search presence. This service is more critical than ever as one of the leading diabetes forums, TU Diabetes, ceased operations in 2025, and we saw increase membership at FUD.
$900 spent2% of program spendingSupport for Cost Efficient Charities: The Board agreed in December 2024 that we would start a new program to support other cost efficient charities in Berkeley and other places as deemed necessary and which are consistent with our Mission, possibly for a small administrative fee. There were no program costs or results for 2025.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,003.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $22k to $59k (+164%).
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 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HELPBERKELEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Michel Thouati
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HELPBERKELEY INC’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.
Where its funders are
HELPBERKELEY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
HELPBERKELEY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HELPBERKELEY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HELPBERKELEY 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 HELPBERKELEY INC?
- HELPBERKELEY INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being TOMKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPBERKELEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to HELPBERKELEY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPBERKELEY INC?
- TOMKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPBERKELEY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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