California · Nonprofit
MILLION LITTLE
MILLION LITTLE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,300 to it, the largest being ALICE C TYLER PERPETUAL TRUST ATTN ANDERS BROWN CHAIRMAN ($104,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $502k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $193k
What Million Little does
Mission
Million Little is an organization that empowers and supports the healing process of children and their families who have experienced trauma through the power of creativity.incarcerated teens, foster youth, those in poverty and those suffering from violence/adversity are all part of the population that Million Little serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Million Little provides strengths based therapeutic arts programs, youth resources, educational workshops and training for at-risk and system engaged youth, their families and caregivers to support healthy social and emotional development and healing.
$533,404 spent$30,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $533,404.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $199k to $315k (+58%).
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: 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 86% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MILLION LITTLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Ji Ahn
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Molla
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $47k → $9k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 MILLION LITTLE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
MILLION LITTLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 74% · 2019 75% · 2020 59% · 2021 41% · 2022 63% · 2023 87% — 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
43% of MILLION LITTLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
MILLION LITTLE draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MILLION LITTLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MILLION LITTLE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MILLION LITTLE: 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 MILLION LITTLE?
- MILLION LITTLE (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,300 to it, the largest being ALICE C TYLER PERPETUAL TRUST ATTN ANDERS BROWN CHAIRMAN ($104,525). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILLION LITTLE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $245,300 in grants to MILLION LITTLE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILLION LITTLE?
- ALICE C TYLER PERPETUAL TRUST ATTN ANDERS BROWN CHAIRMAN is the largest funder on record, with $104,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILLION LITTLE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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