California · Nonprofit
Open Arms Makes A Difference
Open Arms Makes A Difference (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FEED THE CHILDREN INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $0
What Open Arms Makes A Difference does
Mission
Provide assistance to the needy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided non monetary assistance to other 501(c)(3) Organizations
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $372 to $275 (−26%).
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.
79% of Open Arms Makes A Difference’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Geraldine Reaves
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Against its field
Open Arms Makes A Difference's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like Open Arms Makes A Difference
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Open Arms Makes A Difference: 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 Open Arms Makes A Difference?
- Open Arms Makes A Difference (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FEED THE CHILDREN INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Open Arms Makes A Difference have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to Open Arms Makes A Difference.
- Who is the largest funder of Open Arms Makes A Difference?
- FEED THE CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Open Arms Makes A Difference 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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