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Positive Change Can Happen

Positive Change Can Happen (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,543 to it, the largest being ENLIGHT FOUNDATION ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$408k
Net assets
$379k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($175k)2018 Revenue 0 ($28) Expenses 70 ($31k) Net assets 82 ($144k)2019 Revenue 5280 ($400k) Expenses 58 ($26k) Net assets 296 ($518k)2020 Revenue 3 ($223) Expenses 51 ($23k) Net assets 283 ($495k)2021 Revenue 1 ($47) Expenses 52 ($23k) Net assets 270 ($472k)2022 Revenue 1 ($44) Expenses 57 ($25k) Net assets 257 ($449k)2023 Revenue 1 ($41) Expenses 69 ($31k) Net assets 240 ($420k)2024 Revenue 1 ($39) Expenses 67 ($30k) Net assets 227 ($397k)2025 Revenue 133 ($10k) Expenses 55 ($25k) Net assets 217 ($379k)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (55)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $146k to $521k (+257%).

$177k
$146k
$521k
$495k
$473k
$449k
$420k
$397k
$379k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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Listed222333333
Joined····+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed····00000
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $400k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Positive Change Can Happen’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

Positive Change Can Happen leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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

100% of Positive Change Can Happen's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

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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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Positive Change Can Happen holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve183.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Positive Change Can Happen

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.

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04Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Positive Change Can Happen?
Positive Change Can Happen (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $407,543 to it, the largest being ENLIGHT FOUNDATION ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Positive Change Can Happen have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $407,543 in grants to Positive Change Can Happen.
Who is the largest funder of Positive Change Can Happen?
ENLIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Positive Change Can Happen 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 2 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