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ROOT & REBOUND

ROOT & REBOUND (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,531,721 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,277,684). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$3.9M
Funders on record
85
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$1.8M
51/85 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Root & Rebound does

Mission

Root & Rebound's mission is to restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through legal advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation model rooted in the needs and expertise of people who are directly impacted

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Roadmap to re-entry guide & trainings: conducts trainings across california that teach communities most impacted by incarceration how to successfully navigate re-entry. The trainings are intended for a wide audience, including people in re-entry and those who support them: community service providers, advocates, educators, community supervision officers, family and friends. Root & Rebound is the only legal re-entry organization that accepts collect calls from jails and prisons. Roadmap to re-entry legal guide: provides legal information, advice, referrals and where appropriate, representation to people in re-entry. Assists clients on critical matters such as parole and probation issues, family law, housing, employment and public benefits. Major gaps and unmet needs in re-entry and best practices for starting a re-entry program. Root & Rebound guide for california employers: hiring people with criminal records. Root & Rebound also created a tribal community toolkit for the men & women in tribal areas throughout california.

    $2,869,822 spent$83,510 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,869,822.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($972k) Net assets 100 ($517k)2018 Revenue 138 ($1.6M) Expenses 161 ($1.6M) Net assets 232 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 242 ($2.9M) Expenses 255 ($2.5M) Net assets 310 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 284 ($3.4M) Expenses 332 ($3.2M) Net assets 339 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 423 ($5.0M) Expenses 423 ($4.1M) Net assets 517 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 363 ($4.3M) Expenses 514 ($5.0M) Net assets 385 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 327 ($3.9M) Expenses 424 ($4.1M) Net assets 339 ($1.8M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (327)Expenses (424)Net assets (339)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 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $3.3M (+54%).

$535k
$1.2M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$3.3M
$2.3M
$2.1M
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 16% · 2020 30% · 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of ROOT & REBOUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,394 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$218k
’17
$84k
’18
$407k
’19
$153k
’20
$921k
’21
−$685k
’22
−$237k
’23
4.3
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed9128111194
Joined·+3+0+6+0+5+0
No longer listed·043075
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $301k → $2.0M.

23 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ROOT & REBOUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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

ROOT & REBOUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

59% 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 ROOT & REBOUND.

15%
largest funder
30%
top three
~19
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 64% · 2019 21% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 29% — 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

44% of ROOT & REBOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of ROOT & REBOUND's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

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. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ROOT & REBOUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,260 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,260 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Organizations like ROOT & REBOUND

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

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 19%Fundraising 12%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROOT & REBOUND?
ROOT & REBOUND (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,531,721 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,277,684). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ROOT & REBOUND have?
IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $15,531,721 in grants to ROOT & REBOUND, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROOT & REBOUND?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,277,684 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROOT & REBOUND 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 85 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