California · Nonprofit
INNERCITY STRUGGLE
INNERCITY STRUGGLE (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,104,098 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($6,073,071). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Innercity Struggle does
Mission
Igniting a transformational and intergenerational movement by building community power to advance justice, life opportunities and dignity in the eastside of los angeles.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Brothers, sons, selves - this area of work focuses on ending the criminalization of young boys and men of color by creating and influencing public policy.
$819,450 spent20% of program spendingFamilies unidas - this component develops a powerful and influential base of parents and community members to promote educational justice in public education and builds the leadership of families to have positive collective impact.
$790,307 spent20% of program spendingCivic engagement - this component educates, activates, and mobilizes eastside residents on issues that impact their quality of life and increases their civic participation at the ballot box and beyond.
$753,958 spent19% of program spendingEastside leads - this area of work focuses on demanding new development policies that meet the communities needs instead of pushing them out, preserving the culture of the neighborhoods.
$723,867 spentof which $30,560 as grants18% of program spendingUnited students - this component empowers and develops the leadership capacity of young people in area high schools through education, academic services, and youth organizing training.
$612,402 spentof which $16,474 as grants15% of program spendingHousing justice - this area of work identifies quantitative and qualitative data and research methods to build a case for housing justice and community change. Specific policy and research areas include tenet protection: eviction laws, tenet / landlord rights, housing scarcity, unhoused issues and homelessness issues, including statewide policies impacting inequities.
$319,152 spent8% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,019,136.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.7M to $9.5M (+103%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 21% · 2021 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 8% · 2024 21% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of INNERCITY STRUGGLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Henry Perez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.6M.
13 of 77 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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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
INNERCITY STRUGGLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
51% of INNERCITY STRUGGLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of INNERCITY STRUGGLE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
INNERCITY STRUGGLE holds deeper cash reserves 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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE: 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 INNERCITY STRUGGLE?
- INNERCITY STRUGGLE (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,104,098 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($6,073,071). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INNERCITY STRUGGLE have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $29,104,098 in grants to INNERCITY STRUGGLE, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INNERCITY STRUGGLE?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $6,073,071 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNERCITY STRUGGLE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 77 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