California · Nonprofit
LIFT TO RISE
LIFT TO RISE (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,710,700 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($781,630). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Lift to Rise does
Mission
Lift to Rise is the backbone of a coalition of more than 70 partners carrying out a bold plan to increase housing affordability in the coachella valley. We bring together local governments, affordable housing developers, community groups, and resident leaders to solve the challenges that slow affordable housing production so the coachella valley can be a place where everyone thrives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lift to Rise serves as the backbone organization for a multi-sector collective impact initiative committed to reducing rent burden by 30% in the coachella valley through the production of 10,000 units of affordable housing by 2028. Our key areas of work include: convening: we anchor and coordinate a regional collaborative known as the housing collaborative action network (can), guiding over 70 partners across sectors through biannual action planning and aligned contributions toward our shared goal. Pipeline development: we track and maintain a real-time regional pipeline of affordable housing projects, identifying systemic barriers across jurisdictions and developments that inform strategic interventions to accelerate production. Investment: through our innovative we lift catalyst funda revolving loan fund that leverages public, private, and cdfi resourceswe deploy flexible, low-interest capital to hard-to-fund and community-prioritized affordable housing projects that face financing gaps in this historically underinvested region. Policy advocacy: we lead local, state, and federal advocacy efforts to align regulatory frameworks and public funding sources with the unique needs of…
$2,550,289 spent$396,904 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,550,289.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $19M (+84%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 18% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% · 2024 88% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of LIFT TO RISE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Heather Vaikona
CEO
Board chair
Matt Horton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $819k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 LIFT TO RISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
LIFT TO RISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 LIFT TO RISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 56% · 2021 52% · 2022 63% · 2023 60% — 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
17% of LIFT TO RISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
LIFT TO RISE draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIFT TO RISE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFT TO RISE
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LIFT TO RISE: 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 LIFT TO RISE?
- LIFT TO RISE (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,710,700 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($781,630). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFT TO RISE have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,710,700 in grants to LIFT TO RISE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFT TO RISE?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $781,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFT TO RISE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 23 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