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POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON

POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being GOLDEN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$277k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$44k
Net assets
$283k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Point Loma Association %Brad Nelson does

Mission

Pla is an organization of residents and businesses committed to improving the quality of life of point loma through beautification, education, charitable activities and civic collaboration.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community beuatification

  2. Community enrichment donations for/concert series/fire works/high school

    $77,306 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,306.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($212k)2018 Revenue 121 ($194k) Expenses 104 ($127k) Net assets 131 ($279k)2019 Revenue 125 ($199k) Expenses 167 ($204k) Net assets 129 ($274k)2020 Revenue 161 ($258k) Expenses 106 ($130k) Net assets 190 ($402k)2021 Revenue 107 ($171k) Expenses 126 ($154k) Net assets 198 ($420k)2022 Revenue 181 ($289k) Expenses 456 ($556k) Net assets 72 ($153k)2023 Revenue 148 ($237k) Expenses 143 ($174k) Net assets 113 ($241k)2024 Revenue 161 ($257k) Expenses 165 ($202k) Net assets 140 ($296k)2025 Revenue 174 ($277k) Expenses 238 ($290k) Net assets 133 ($283k)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (238)Net assets (133)

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 $422k to $153k (−64%).

$212k
$281k
$312k
$402k
$422k
$153k
$252k
$297k
$284k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 18% · 2019 30% · 2020 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$67k
’18
−$4k
’19
$128k
’20
$18k
’21
−$267k
’22
$63k
’23
$55k
’24
−$13k
’25
12
months of
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.

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Listed444444443
Joined·+2+1+4+0+0+0+0+3
No longer listed·21400004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $1k.

From the IRS filings of POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON’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

POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

68%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

ID
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 73%Fundraising 0%

Governance

65
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON?
POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,000 to it, the largest being GOLDEN FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $44,000 in grants to POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON?
GOLDEN 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 POINT LOMA ASSOCIATION %BRAD NELSON 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