California · Nonprofit
RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS
RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,227 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($129,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- —
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Rachel's Hug-A-Bears does
Mission
To provide companionship, love, smiles and hope to hospitalized children through cuddly bears and personalized notes of encouragement.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To provide companionship, love, smiles and hope to hospitalized children through cuddly bears and personalized notes of encouragement
To provide companionship, love, smiles and hope to hospitalized children through cuddly bears and personalized notes of encouragement
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5k to $4k (−17%).
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.
100% of RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS’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
RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
“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 RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS's revenue grew 9900% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS: 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 RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS?
- RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,227 to it, the largest being GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION ($129,727). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $131,227 in grants to RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS?
- GOOD VENTURES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $129,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RACHEL'S HUG-A-BEARS 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2020), 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