California · Nonprofit
Sebastopol World Friends
Sebastopol World Friends (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $245 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($245). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $245
- Net assets
- $45k
What Sebastopol World Friends does
Mission
Sebastopol World Friends is a City of Sebastopol commissioned non-profit service group which is totally volunteer driven. Our mission is to link Sebastopol with its sister cities through a variety of educational and cultural programs and to coordinate exchanges which will promote lasting friendships.Sebastopol World Friends offers a changing array of programs connected to our two sister cities Takeo, Japan (formerly Yamauchi), and Chyhyryn, Ukraine. We also engage with our community through a variety of events and cultural activities, and offer opportunities to host visitors and travel to our sister cities. We are a member of Sister Cities International.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Sister City Dormitory Reconstruction Project-Sebastopol World Friends collects donations whlch are forwarded to a non-profit in Ukraine for reconstruction of a dormitory to house_people displaced by the war.The building has been rendered habitable for 120 people and eventually will house an additional 120 people.Sister City Student Exchange Program-Sebastopol World_Friends and its Japanese counterpart, Takeo World Friends exchange groups of 16-20 middle school_students for 10 days. Expenses cover travel, minimal administrative costs, and insurance.Open World- Sebastopol World Friends is a grant recipient from the U.S. Congressional Office for International Leadership to host a delegation of six Ukrainian professionals to study principles of open governance and specific human service topics. Homestays with local families result in lasting relationships.
$87,067 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,067.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $45k (−13%).
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.
57% of Sebastopol World Friends’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $43 → $81.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Sebastopol World Friends’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Sebastopol World Friends's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Sebastopol World Friends has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,793 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sebastopol World Friends
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sebastopol World Friends: 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 Sebastopol World Friends?
- Sebastopol World Friends (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $245 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($245). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sebastopol World Friends have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $245 in grants to Sebastopol World Friends, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sebastopol World Friends?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $245 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sebastopol World Friends 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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