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Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc

Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,171 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$-1620
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$307k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc does

Mission

Assist and empower families and individual through advocacy, social and economic support to become self-sufficient and productive citizens.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing scholarship and donations to neeedy students and families to help them become self-sufficient and productive citizens.

    $10,650 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,650.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($551k) Expenses 100 ($570k) Net assets 100 ($339k)2018 Revenue 98 ($537k) Expenses 95 ($544k) Net assets 98 ($333k)2019 Revenue 63 ($346k) Expenses 59 ($337k) Net assets 100 ($341k)2020 Revenue 36 ($197k) Expenses 38 ($215k) Net assets 95 ($323k)2021 Revenue 36 ($201k) Expenses 36 ($206k) Net assets 94 ($318k)2022 Revenue 5 ($25k) Expenses 5 ($27k) Net assets 93 ($316k)2023 Revenue 0 ($-878) Expenses 3 ($18k) Net assets 88 ($298k)2024 Revenue 4 ($24k) Expenses 3 ($17k) Net assets 90 ($305k)2025 Revenue 7 ($40k) Expenses 4 ($21k) Net assets 96 ($325k)2026 Revenue 0 ($-1620) Expenses 3 ($16k) Net assets 91 ($307k)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (3)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $422k to $388k (−8%).

$422k
$388k
$377k
$378k
$349k
$320k
$302k
$306k
$325k
$307k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 74% · 2020 82% · 2021 14% · 2022 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

-917% of Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,272 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$7k
’18
$9k
’19
−$17k
’20
−$5k
’21
−$1k
’22
−$19k
’23
$8k
’24
$19k
’25
−$18k
’26
8.4
months of
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.

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Listed1010106554666
Joined·+0+0+6+1+0+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·0010201100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $43 → $33.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Lao Family Community Empowerment 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.

How concentrated its funding is

Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc is better cushioned than half of the 57 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1096% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−28% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 57 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 29%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lao Family Community Empowerment 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 Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc?
Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,171 to it, the largest being KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,171 in grants to Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lao Family Community Empowerment Inc?
KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lao Family Community Empowerment 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 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