California · Nonprofit
Prevention Institute
Prevention Institute (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,630,237 to it, the largest being MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ($12,672,481). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Prevention Institute does
Mission
Prevention Institute's mission is to build prevention and equity into key policies and actions to ensure that the places where all people live, work, play and learn foster health, safety, and well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community-centered Practice: We work with community collaboratives and networks of community collaboratives to coordinate communities of practice and learning communities; facilitate peer learning; provide coaching and mentoring; support community engagement, planning, and capacity building; build power with communities; and manage grants at the local, regional, state and national levels. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve: community-defined solutions; community-level change across sociocultural, physical and built, educational, and economic environments; shifts in power to communities; stronger upstream prevention efforts; and expanded community engagement.
$3,319,596 spent$168,000 earned by the program53% of program spendingPractitioner Knowledge and Skill Development: We partner with practitioners across sectors to provide training and technical assistance; develop actionable tools, guidance documents, and case studies; support framework development; and broadly share learnings and outcomes from community-centered practice and work. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve: applied knowledge and skills; the ability to operationalize equity objectives; a skilled and sustainable workforce; stronger capacity for upstream, community, and population level practice; the ability to partner and collaborate with community collaboratives; sustained stewardship for prevention and health equity; effective multisector collaboration; and community-centered approaches.
$1,687,433 spent$290,794 earned by the program27% of program spendingPolicy & Systems Transformation: We collaborate with policymakers, payers, system influencers, and advocacy partners to champion local, state, and federal policy and systems change rooted in a positive vision and hope for the future; align interconnected priorities across public health, health equity, and racial justice; and elevate community-centered practice and learnings. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve: systems of prevention, health equity, and racial justice; integration of contextual and experiential evidence; embedding and operationalizing equity objectives within systems; expanded definitions of a community health workforce; systems that further equity and resilience; investments in upstream community-level prevention; and strengthened political will.
$680,382 spent$50,616 earned by the program11% of program spendingMomentum Building: We work across sector, philanthropy, and societal influencers to engage in field building; advance advocacy and policy change; emphasize narrative change; bridge building across sectors and issues; and develop partnership, networks, and ecosystems. Applying this strategy, we work to achieve norms rooted in connection, dignity, and interdependence; shifts in fields (e.g., language, funding, partners); asset-based narratives and narrative power; equitable, community-driven policies; maintained advocacy gains with minimal losses; diverse, resilient partnerships; and an ecosystem that advances prevention, health equity, and racial justice.
$525,059 spent$348,750 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,212,470.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $22M (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Prevention Institute’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Rachel A Davis
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $5.1M → $3.0M.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Prevention Institute’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
Prevention Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 Prevention Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 55% · 2020 54% · 2021 30% · 2022 42% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of Prevention Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of Prevention Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Prevention Institute holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Prevention Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.8M on record — $6.7M federal, $136k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.7M
- VT$106k
- OR$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Prevention Institute
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 Prevention Institute: 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 Prevention Institute?
- Prevention Institute (California) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,630,237 to it, the largest being MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ($12,672,481). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prevention Institute have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $44,630,237 in grants to Prevention Institute, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevention Institute?
- MOVEMBER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,672,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevention Institute 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 33 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