California · Nonprofit
PALS4PAL
PALS4PAL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,399 to it, the largest being THE DAVID WILLIAM UPHAM FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $0
What Pals4pal does
Mission
We are a support organization for "project adult literacy" which is a program of the newport beach public library that promotes adult literacy, and in fulfillment of our mission, we fundraise to provide financial support, offer the program volunteer support, help facilitate program events, and encourage program participation though publicity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
As the support organization for the newport beach public library's "project adult literacy", we continue to facilitate adult learning through the program, which provides one-on-one tutoring and small classes for adult learners. We also enable the all-volunteer group of tutors and instructors by sponsoring events, funding educational and training opportunities, and providing materials. In 2024, the board decided to terminate the non profit and distributed all the assets to newport beach public library foundation so that entity could carry on its purpose.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $469k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $12k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PALS4PAL’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
PALS4PAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 62% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
75% of PALS4PAL's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549 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.
Organizations like PALS4PAL
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
93%
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 PALS4PAL: 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 PALS4PAL?
- PALS4PAL (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,399 to it, the largest being THE DAVID WILLIAM UPHAM FOUNDATION ($30,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALS4PAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,399 in grants to PALS4PAL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALS4PAL?
- THE DAVID WILLIAM UPHAM FOUNDATION 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 PALS4PAL 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 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