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Safer DIY Spaces Inc

Safer DIY Spaces Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $664,259 to it, the largest being Gray Area Foundation For The Arts ($331,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$104k
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$664k
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%

Against its field

Safer DIY Spaces Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($259k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2020 Revenue 65 ($177k) Expenses 62 ($161k) Net assets 165 ($40k)2021 Revenue 95 ($258k) Expenses 113 ($292k) Net assets -3 ($-682)2022 Revenue 114 ($308k) Expenses 95 ($247k) Net assets 454 ($109k)2023 Revenue 90 ($244k) Expenses 84 ($217k) Net assets 574 ($138k)2024 Revenue 71 ($193k) Expenses 63 ($162k) Net assets 555 ($133k)2025 Revenue 38 ($104k) Expenses 23 ($59k) Net assets 553 ($133k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (38)Expenses (23)Net assets (553)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

49% of Safer DIY Spaces Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
19
$16k
20
$34k
21
$62k
22
$26k
23
$31k
24
$45k
25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $50k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Pro Arts Incunclassified
$94k
$20k
funders
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
1

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)33% 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 Safer DIY Spaces Inc’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

Safer DIY Spaces Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Safer DIY Spaces Inc.

50%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 52% · 2022 95% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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 Safer DIY Spaces Inc's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
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22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Safer DIY Spaces Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

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 Safer DIY Spaces Inc: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Safer DIY Spaces Inc?
Safer DIY Spaces Inc (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $664,259 to it, the largest being Gray Area Foundation For The Arts ($331,879). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Safer DIY Spaces Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $664,259 in grants to Safer DIY Spaces Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Safer DIY Spaces Inc?
Gray Area Foundation For The Arts is the largest funder on record, with $331,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Safer DIY Spaces Inc 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing