California · Nonprofit
HOWARD PREP
HOWARD PREP (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,468 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Howard Prep does
Mission
This organization provides community care licensed day programs designed to meet the need and interests of a diverse adult community with disabilities. There is an emphasis on communication, behavior management, support, and employment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community employment programs include Production Unlimited, which is a traditional sheltered workshop working environment including bench work, assembly, salvage, quality control, and packaging. Another program is supported employment group, which offers employment with supervision including landscaping/right of way maintenance/janitorial through contracts with City of Ceres. Clients also work for the CA Dept. of Transportation at rest stops in Turlock and Westley and other private business to learn job skills. The Individual Placement program helps coached clients become employed by local employers.
$1,419,138 spent39% of program spendingAdult services programs include multiple programs. PSA helps clients improve challenging behaviors, CIP-community integration program helps clients with social and recreational activities including function skill training and volunteer activities, GOP-Golden Opportunities helps clients focusing on leisure activities to maintain functional and cognitive capabilities, and HAL-Home At Last gives individuals opportunities to live in a home by placing them with supportive host families. These are day programs aimed to help adults with disabilities achieve their full potential.
$1,105,694 spent30% of program spendingThe Food service program offers training and employment in the food service industry in an onsite kitchen. Clients are trained in food production for the senior meal program, catering, school lunches, and other meals for agencies that provide meals to their clients. One of these agencies is Stanislaus Recovery Center, which is accredited by CARF International Accreditation Reviewing Program.
$1,008,957 spent28% of program spendingTransportation is provided to clients who need to get back and forth from their jobs when public transportation is not available due to scheduling or service routes.
$102,885 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,636,674.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $4.2M (+49%).
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 70% · 2018 68% · 2019 56% · 2021 55% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% · 2024 40% · 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $106k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 HOWARD PREP’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
HOWARD PREP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 HOWARD PREP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
87% of HOWARD PREP'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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.
Organizations like HOWARD PREP
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOWARD PREP: 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 HOWARD PREP?
- HOWARD PREP (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,468 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOWARD PREP have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $120,468 in grants to HOWARD PREP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOWARD PREP?
- Stanislaus Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOWARD PREP 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 7 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