California · Nonprofit
Sharefest Community Development Inc
Sharefest Community Development Inc (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,731,372 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($796,419). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Sharefest Community Development Inc does
Mission
Sharefest equips youth facing significant barriers to achieve economic success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sharefest's Career Connections serves 500+ students in LAUSD Continuation and Charter Option High Schools with courses encompassing Socio-Emotional Learning, Purpose Education, Professional Development, College/Career Access, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy and Service Learning. Students receive year-round mentoring, case management support, and workforce development programming that reduces barriers to economic success, increases resilience and expands their supportive network.
$1,487,592 spent$2,927,957 earned by the program81% of program spendingSharefest's Corporate Services program organizes community service projects for local corporations who provide volunteers, community awareness and funding. Projects include the improvement and beautification of schools, parks and other public spaces. Corporate partners also serve as a resource for the Career Connections' workforce development program.
$352,327 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,839,919.
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 $1.1M to $1.9M (+69%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 23% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 19% · 2024 15% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Sharefest Community Development Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Eric Ruehle
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $215k → $368k.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Sharefest Community Development Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Sharefest Community Development Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 Sharefest Community Development Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 64% · 2019 38% · 2020 50% · 2021 27% · 2022 51% · 2023 20% — 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
33% of Sharefest Community Development Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
67% of Sharefest Community Development Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Sharefest Community Development Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Sharefest Community Development Inc
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Sharefest Community Development 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sharefest Community Development Inc?
- Sharefest Community Development Inc (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,731,372 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($796,419). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sharefest Community Development Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,731,372 in grants to Sharefest Community Development Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sharefest Community Development Inc?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $796,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sharefest Community Development 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.
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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 37 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