California · Nonprofit
LOTUS BLOOM
LOTUS BLOOM (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,968,409 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,750,250). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Lotus Bloom does
Mission
Lotus Bloom is a family resource center where children aged 0-5 and their parents/caregivers learn, play, gain confidence and find connections to other new parents, health resources, education resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Who we serve: Lotus Bloom's target audience includes multicultural, low- income families who otherwise may not have access to high quality early childhood educational opportunities for their children; especially those who may feel isolated and would benefit from being a part of a community of families and caregivers. Who we are: Lotus Bloom is a family resource center where children aged 0- 5 and their parents/caregivers learn, play, gain confidence and find connections to other parents, health resources,and education resources. 70% of staff are former caregivers who participated in Lotus Bloom playgroups previously.
$1,211,460 spentof which $116,542 as grants100% of program spendingPlaygroups - Lotus Bloom offered playgroup programs four times per week to serve families in the san antonio, castlemont, and downtown/chinatown/west oakland neighborhoods. Family navigation services to support the wellness, resources, referrals, enrollment into programs/school, and public benefits, etc. Lotus Bloom also provided an enrolled diaper program and distributions to families. Lotus Bloom administered emergency funds for families. Lotus Bloom brings together network of providers to share knowledge and resources. Lotus Bloom also administered a community fund for projects throughout oakland for network members.
Program accomplishments in 2024-25 259 families attended playgroups across three sites 282 families received family navigation/case management 90+ caregivers/parents attended in-person and virtual workshops 1182 diapers boxes distributed to 512 families 40 families received rapid response funds. 432 participants attended community event
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,211,460.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.2M to $7.6M (+83%).
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: 2017 52% · 2018 59% · 2019 81% · 2020 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 51% · 2023 22% · 2024 45% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of LOTUS BLOOM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $187k → $3.0M.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 LOTUS BLOOM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
LOTUS BLOOM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 LOTUS BLOOM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 43% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 83% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LOTUS BLOOM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
53% of LOTUS BLOOM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.8M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LOTUS BLOOM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOTUS BLOOM
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 LOTUS BLOOM: 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 LOTUS BLOOM?
- LOTUS BLOOM (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,968,409 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,750,250). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOTUS BLOOM have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $5,968,409 in grants to LOTUS BLOOM, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOTUS BLOOM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,750,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOTUS BLOOM 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 31 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