California · Nonprofit
Mixed Roots Foundation
Mixed Roots Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,634 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $-22035
What Mixed Roots Foundation does
Mission
To be a voice to help raise more awareness about the adoption experience, so that more funds can be raised and Mixed Roots Foundation can continue to promote, support, and connect the global multicultural adoption and foster care community and their families so that everyone can lead healthier and happier lives overall.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Inaugural FosterChallenge Hour of Hope Raised Emergency Funds for Adopted and Foster Youth during COVID-19 Pandemic during May National Foster Care Month - 18 Adoption and Foster Care organizations/Community Partners benefited
$4,526 spentof which $13,729 as grants83% of program spendingFREEDOM TRAIN PORTRAITS VIRTUAL EVENT Raise funds for Mentoring Scholarship prioritizing Adopted and Foster Youth for Education- 5 Mentoring Scholars were awarded Scholarships
$944 spentof which $6,000 as grants17% of program spendingMixed Roots High School Scholorship for Education and Community - Five Mentoring Scholors awarded scholorships
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,470.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6k to $48k (+724%).
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 Mixed Roots Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kim Feder
Chairman of Board
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Mixed Roots Foundation’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
Mixed Roots Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 80% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
73% of Mixed Roots 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. $134 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
Mixed Roots Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,080 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like Mixed Roots 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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mixed Roots 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 Mixed Roots Foundation?
- Mixed Roots Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,634 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mixed Roots Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $54,634 in grants to Mixed Roots Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mixed Roots Foundation?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mixed Roots 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 4 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