California · Nonprofit
PIERCES PLEDGE
PIERCES PLEDGE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,850 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $158k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Pierces Pledge does
Mission
Pierce's pledge is a non-profit organization whose mission is to keep children safe during the stressful and emotionally volatile time of custody disputes. We believe that by storing guns outside of the home during these times, we can do just that. We represent a voice and advocate for the child and work with lawyers, mediators, custody partners, and judges. A child cannot ask a parent to store a gun, but we can.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Education: Pierces Pledge offers a multifaceted education program designed to support professionals and the public in matters related to child custody and gun violence prevention. A key component of our program is the toolkit, a comprehensive resource available for free as a PDF. Developed to assist judges, attorneys, mental health practitioners, mediators, court staff, and other professionals, the toolkit provides valuable guidance on handling child custody cases effectively and responsibly.In addition to our toolkit, we focus on gun violence prevention by raising public awareness through educational campaigns and advertising. Our team is also dedicated to maintaining a gun storage map, a continually updated resource that lists secure firearm storage locations to promote responsible gun ownership. Furthermore, we actively participate in conferences for family law professionals, where we present our pledge and share essential resources like the toolkit, ensuring that legal experts have the knowledge and tools needed to support families. Through these initiatives, Pierces Pledge remains committed to education, safety, and responsible advocacy.
$142,328 spentof which $7,687 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $142,328.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $145k to $89k (−38%).
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.
99% of PIERCES PLEDGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Lesley Hu
CEO, dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 PIERCES PLEDGE’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
PIERCES PLEDGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PIERCES PLEDGE.
“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
99% of PIERCES PLEDGE'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. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PIERCES PLEDGE's revenue fell 60% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PIERCES PLEDGE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIERCES PLEDGE: 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 PIERCES PLEDGE?
- PIERCES PLEDGE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,850 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($18,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PIERCES PLEDGE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,850 in grants to PIERCES PLEDGE.
- Who is the largest funder of PIERCES PLEDGE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $18,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIERCES PLEDGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), 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