California · Nonprofit
M F PLACE INC
M F PLACE INC (California) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,056,180 to it, the largest being HAPPY HIPPIE FOUNDATION ($1,020,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $15M
What M F Place Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to cultivate growth and opportunities for young people impacted by homelessness envisioning a los angeles community that effectively prevents and responds to youth and young adult homelessness and ensures the physical, mental, social and economic well-being of all young people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The safe haven provides drop-in and appointment based services that help young people meet their immediate needs with meals, clothing, showers, communication and transportation services. The safe haven staff work with youth to establish safety and trust so to understand the young person's needs, offering linkage to housing case management, health and mental health services as well as numerous other resources. More than 62% of the young people served through the safe haven go on to access higher commitment programming, such as employment support services and housing case management. Engagement in higher commitment programming is critical in supporting youth as they move toward a permanent exit from homelessness. Impact highlights include: of the 1,155 young people served, 1,086 young people visited our community center 15,252 times. The safe haven program provided over 30,000 meals and 2,365 showers. Sixty-two percent of safe haven visitors went on to engage more deeply in transformative education and housing & wellness programs.
$1,140,973 spent36% of program spendingThe housing and wellness program provides youth with developmentally and culturally appropriate health and mental health services, supporting the goal of young people's pursuits of establishing safety, connecting with community, cultivating wellness and engaging in growth and opportunities supporting their long term stability and wellness. Master level clinical social workers conduct assessments and counseling to address issues such as mental health distress and emotional regulation, substance use, and interpersonal violence. Using a clinical social work approach, in addition to supporting a young person's immediate well-being, the social workers also provided the necessary advocacy and assistance with securing identification documents and public benefits to ensure a young person's engagement with the regional housing support system. Additionally, the triage case managers engage in case management, crisis intervention, animal companion support, personal identity document acquisition and support to access legal services. Impact highlights include: one of every two young persons enrolled in case management with 210 youth accessing mental health support. As a housing access center,…
$920,495 spent29% of program spendingThe transformative education is a vital part of our continuum of care providing youth with creative arts programming, education, and employment readiness services. Through workshops, one-on-one sessions, and progressively more intensive programming, the transformative education program aims to equip youth with marketable skills, encourage positive behaviors and create alternative ways for staff to build rapport with youth who are reluctant to access more intensive, higher commitment programming. Impact highlights include: one in three young people engaged in creative workshops. Two hundred and twelve youth engaged in employment services and 40 engaged in education sessions.
$728,582 spent23% of program spendingThe intake and crisis care program provides youth with clinically, culturally and developmentally appropriate services that include intake assessment, triage case management, crisis intervention, animal companion support, personal identity document acquisition and support to access legal services.
$419,005 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,209,055.
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 $7.4M to $11M (+54%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of M F PLACE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Heather Carmichael
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $441k → $1.2M.
22 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 M F PLACE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
M F PLACE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
83% 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 M F PLACE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 29% · 2019 23% · 2020 11% · 2021 31% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% — 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
54% of M F PLACE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
79% of M F PLACE INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
M F PLACE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like M F PLACE INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 M F PLACE 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 M F PLACE INC?
- M F PLACE INC (California) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,056,180 to it, the largest being HAPPY HIPPIE FOUNDATION ($1,020,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does M F PLACE INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $9,056,180 in grants to M F PLACE INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of M F PLACE INC?
- HAPPY HIPPIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,020,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like M F PLACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 68 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