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HUMAN APPEAL

HUMAN APPEAL (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,959 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($972,827). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$36M
Revenue FY2024
44
Funders on record
$2.7M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
10/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

HUMAN APPEAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)246% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($801k)2023 Revenue 368 ($11M) Expenses 287 ($6.2M) Net assets 688 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 1200 ($36M) Expenses 1325 ($29M) Net assets 1552 ($12M)
202220232024
Revenue (1200)Expenses (1325)Net assets (1552)Peer revenue range

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HUMAN APPEAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 384 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$800k
22
$4.7M
23
$6.9M
24
5.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $3k → $250k.

13 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)71% 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 HUMAN APPEAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

HUMAN APPEAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 HUMAN APPEAL.

37%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 36%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

71% of HUMAN APPEAL'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 $781k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from California funders.

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DE
NC
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

22
23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 44 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HUMAN APPEAL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 3%Fundraising 28%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Human Appeal UK · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HUMAN APPEAL: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HUMAN APPEAL?
HUMAN APPEAL (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,653,959 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($972,827). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HUMAN APPEAL have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,653,959 in grants to HUMAN APPEAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUMAN APPEAL?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $972,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUMAN APPEAL 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 44funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing