California · Nonprofit
Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino
Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,319 to it, the largest being Friends of Santa Claus Inc ($475,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino does
Mission
The mission of Santa Claus, Inc. is to provide critical services to youth in the Inland Empire by empowering children, thereby strengthening the family unit through a variety of year round and seasonal community based programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Santa Claus Inc., through its vital year-round Yes! and Christmas programs, partners with 96 nonprofits and 44 school districts in S.B. and Riverside Counties to make sure children living in poverty are provided with essential resources. With an astounding growth of over 1000% over the past ten years SCI provides positive intervention in the lives of children living in poverty, homelessness, and foster care who suffer from difficult living circumstances and a lack of basic childhood resources. Barriers to success contribute to an array of adverse childhood experiences which negatively impact a child's mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. By fulfilling basic and desired needs, Santa Claus, Inc. reduces, and oftentimes reverses, many of the most common problems experienced by children suffering in poverty.Santa Claus, Inc., through its Yes! Youth Enrichment Services year-round programs, collaborates with International, National, and local partners including Delivering Good, Good360, Amazon, Walmart, Toys for Tots, Macy's, Burlington Coat Factory, Scholastic Books, Mattel, Hanes, and dozens of major manufacturers to provide clothing, shoes, coats, backpacks and school supplies,…
$1,548,496 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,548,496.
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 2019 to 2020, from $995k to $2.5M (+150%).
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 Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Larry O'Nan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $100k → $154k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 23 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
Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 74% · 2019 74% · 2020 49% · 2021 73% · 2022 69% · 2023 49% — 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
40% of Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
95% of Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino: 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 Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino?
- Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,061,319 to it, the largest being Friends of Santa Claus Inc ($475,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,061,319 in grants to Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino?
- Friends of Santa Claus Inc is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Santa Claus Inc of Greater San Bernardino 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 23 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