California · Nonprofit
RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE
RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,367,282 to it, the largest being The Tyrone Heritage Foundation ($992,108). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Rescue Mission Alliance does
Mission
The Rescue Mission Alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or homeless. With the support of our community, we offer: refuge - food, clothing, and shelter for those in need, recovery - biblically based programs to minister to the whole person: body, mind, and spirit, and restoration - equipping people to lead productive and independent lives. Our target population is poor and homeless men, women, and children of all ages, ethnicity, or religious beliefs, located in ventura, santa barbara, los angeles, and san bernardino counties. These activities are carried out through four unique rescue missions and two food banks. The organization operates six thrift stores dedicated to the rehabilitation of men and women in recovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rescue Mission Alliance has been a safe haven for over 53 years for those in desperate need of food, clothing, shelter, and support to resolve hunger and homelessness. We have grown in our ability to provide biblically-based residential programs aimed at breaking the cycle of alcohol and drug dependency, teaching life skills, vocational training and providing residents with supportive services and aftercare to maintain productive and independent lives. (continued on schedule o)Rescue Mission Alliance operates four rescue missions located in santa barbara, ventura, los angeles, and san bernardino counties which daily carry out our mission to offer refuge, recovery, and restoration for those in need. We operate 16 facilities and manage 421 units of housing that provide emergency shelter and support services, residential recovery, and transitional housing. We also operate 2 food banks that provides over 3.41 million pounds of food each year to thousands of needy individuals. With the support of over 18,751 donors and 16,500 volunteers last year, the Rescue Mission Alliance served 4,821,451 meals, distributed 38,562 articles of clothing, provided 67,114 nights of safe shelter,…
$25,555,297 spentof which $10,363,586 as grants$-49,071 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,555,297.
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 2022 to 2023, from $29M to $26M (−11%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Todd White
CEO/COO
Board chair
Jim Owens
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $294k → $1.0M.
21 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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
RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
41% 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 RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 22% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 12% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
57% of RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 29 funders to 62 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: 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 RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE?
- RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE (California) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,367,282 to it, the largest being The Tyrone Heritage Foundation ($992,108). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $5,367,282 in grants to RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE?
- The Tyrone Heritage Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $992,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 138 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing