California · Nonprofit
Let Them Breathe
Let Them Breathe (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,250 to it, the largest being JE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $37k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Let Them Breathe does
Mission
To assist children and adults in accessing quality education and foster civic engagement by connecting families and individuals with information, community, and educational resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Legal Advocacy: Ensuring student's access to effective education. Over 5 million California students' rights protected by our successful legal action. Thousands of families taking part in remote and in-person events focused on ensuring effective education. We have won several important cases that kept thousands of students in the classroom and empowered educators.
$6,744 spent15% of program spendingCommunications: Communicating students' rights and needs and encouraging dialogue around those. Podcast and radio show broadcasted weekly reaching thousands with information about education and discussion of educational issues. Social media and mainstream media presence reaching hundreds of thousands to millions monthly with this message/conversation. Team and community events focused on informing our community and making a positive impact in K-12 education.
$20,506 spent47% of program spendingEvents & Learning Center: Offering alternative education options. In-Person Learning Center operated for 6 months to help students displaced by their educational communities and to recoup learning loss during the pandemic as well as address social/emotional needs. Online and in-person monthly events throughout the year providing hands-on education for families in the areas of art, STEM and more.
$16,758 spent38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,008.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $135k to $32k (−76%).
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.
100% of Let Them Breathe’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 4 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
Sharon McKeeman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $25k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Let Them Breathe’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
Let Them Breathe leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 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
100% of Let Them Breathe's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
Let Them Breathe's revenue fell 89% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Let Them Breathe
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.
Public support
0%
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 Let Them Breathe: 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 Let Them Breathe?
- Let Them Breathe (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,250 to it, the largest being JE FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Let Them Breathe have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $85,250 in grants to Let Them Breathe, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Let Them Breathe?
- JE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Let Them Breathe 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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