California · Nonprofit
MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY
MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $492 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $492
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Making Headway Center for Brain Injury Recovery does
Mission
To help persons who have sustained traumatic brain injuries and their families gain access to affordable services, support, and educational opportunities. Making headway serves each individual in a manner that meets his or her unique and personal needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide brain injury specific services, including but not limited to, case management, counseling, advocacy, education, professional consultations, pre-vocational assessment and exploration, job development, systems navigation support, support groups, recreational opportunities, family therapy, transitional and supported living, benefit assistance, independent living skills assessment and training, and early intervention treatment programs.
$2,066,363 spent$2,795,622 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,066,363.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $3.9M (+33%).
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 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Laurel Northrop
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $94 → $78.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $492 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
MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY?
- MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $492 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($492). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $492 in grants to MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $492 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKING HEADWAY CENTER FOR BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY 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 1 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