California · Nonprofit
LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION
LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,987 to it, the largest being GEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY ($41,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $209k
What Live Like Coco Foundation does
Mission
To help kids in Santa Cruz County grow up healthy and with opportunities to pursue their dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
[please see schedule o for a complete description]
$74,411 spent100% of program spendingDrove our bookmobile to every Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) K-8 summer school site, to school festivals, and even to community events such as the Worlds Shortest Parade and the Watsonville Downtown Candy Crawl in order to encourage reading and literacy.Worked with Watsonville Charter School of the Arts to open the bookmobile as the schools first-ever library.Distributed more than 18,000 free books through schools, partnerships with organizations such as PVUSD and Diversify Your Stack, community events and through our own Little Free Libraries.Placed new Little Free Libraries at MacQuiddy Elementary and at the Watsonville YMCA, bringing our total to 20 Little Free Libraries in our community.Hosted our annual Run for Reading at Pinto Lake County Park, registering more than 230 local children. Each participant got free books from our bookmobile.Worked with the Friends of the Aptos Public Library to install an interactive sensory path in the Live Like Coco Childrens Reading Garden.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $93k to $159k (+70%).
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 LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kate Pavao
President and Exec. Dir.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $18k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 86% · 2022 93% · 2023 54% — 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
50% of LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
52% of LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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
LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION
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
79%
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 LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION: 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 LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION?
- LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,987 to it, the largest being GEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY ($41,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $121,987 in grants to LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION?
- GEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY is the largest funder on record, with $41,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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