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SAFE PASSAGES

SAFE PASSAGES (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,565,602 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,327,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$27M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$17M
33/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Safe Passages does

Mission

To develop charitable and educational programs for high need children and families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Safe Passages provides educational and support programs for children and families. Programs are provided on a continuum for children and youthbirth through college and career including parenting classes, early childhood development services, behavioral hearlthservices,youth development, life coaching,and workforce development programs and services.

    $16,754,983 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. Safe Passages after school programs: implemented high impact academic, enrichment and recreational activities in partnership with city of oakland and oakland unified school district at multiple middle school and high school sites.

    $1,220,552 spent$1,116,343 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. Americorps: trained and placed members funded by the federal corporation for national community service to provide academic and mentoring services to children of families in neighborhood schools.

    $617,078 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,592,613.

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 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($451k)2018 Revenue 152 ($5.2M) Expenses 103 ($3.9M) Net assets 401 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 137 ($4.7M) Expenses 123 ($4.6M) Net assets 421 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 192 ($6.6M) Expenses 143 ($5.3M) Net assets 701 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 230 ($7.9M) Expenses 184 ($6.9M) Net assets 895 ($4.0M)2022 Revenue 365 ($13M) Expenses 267 ($10M) Net assets 1458 ($6.6M)2023 Revenue 440 ($15M) Expenses 328 ($12M) Net assets 2086 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 557 ($19M) Expenses 512 ($19M) Net assets 2071 ($9.3M)2025 Revenue 787 ($27M) Expenses 530 ($20M) Net assets 3665 ($17M)
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Revenue (787)Expenses (530)Net assets (3665)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 2024 to 2025, from $18M to $26M (+45%).

$701k
$2.1M
$2.2M
$4.3M
$5.1M
$10M
$14M
$18M
$26M
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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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 43% · 2019 72% · 2020 58% · 2021 65% · 2022 90% · 2023 89% · 2024 78% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SAFE PASSAGES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 270 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$310k
’17
$1.4M
’18
$89k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$1.0M
’21
$2.5M
’22
$2.8M
’23
−$69k
’24
$7.2M
’25
0.7
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.

Chief executive

Josefina Alvarado Mena

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141413141417171617
Joined·+2+0+1+0+3+4+4+2
No longer listed·21000451
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $770k → $1.4M.

13 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SAFE PASSAGES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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

SAFE PASSAGES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

58% 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 SAFE PASSAGES.

11%
largest funder
30%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 40% · 2021 19% · 2022 22% · 2023 40% — 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 SAFE PASSAGES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

76% of SAFE PASSAGES's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC

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. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

SAFE PASSAGES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding SAFE PASSAGES receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.

Federal$2.3M
grants $2.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Corporation for National and Community Service$1.3M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M

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 SAFE PASSAGES

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

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFE PASSAGES: 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 SAFE PASSAGES?
SAFE PASSAGES (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,565,602 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($1,327,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAFE PASSAGES have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $11,565,602 in grants to SAFE PASSAGES, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAFE PASSAGES?
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $1,327,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAFE PASSAGES 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 53 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