California · Nonprofit
SISTAHFRIENDS
SISTAHFRIENDS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being MAX & PAULINE ZIMMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $162k
What Sistahfriends does
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness throughout the life cycle of black women and girls through counseling and care management services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Program jail mental health services to provide clinical facilitated groups in the los angeles county jail
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Lac dhs chs jail mental health services - to provide clinical facilitated groups in the los angeles county jail.
$238,266 spent19% of program spendingGeneral programs - general programs are non-discretionary funds received for fee-for-services that are not tied to any specific program. These funds were received from the city of long beach to provide mental health services to persons disproportionately impacted by covid in which indigent black community members of long beach were impacted. We received grant funding from the city of los angeles to provide mental health services, crisis intervention and outreach and engagement to women and girls involved in sex trafficking. We received non-discretionary funding from the liberty hill foundation to provide mental health counseling to women. We received funding from the state of california to provide mental health services to women who have been victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
$217,846 spentof which $639 as grants17% of program spendingLa county justice care and opportunity department - ricms - to provide reentry intensive case management services to individuals with criminal justice involvement.
$197,513 spent16% of program spendingOther programs: victims services support, cda patient representative, mental health & social services, dmh adult mental health services, cd-8 reimagine grant, la city library mental health social services, innovative victims services, cfci capacity building grant, cabwhp-240 gilead grant royaltea
$597,895 spentof which $4,082 as grants48% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,251,520.
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 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $262k (+388%).
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: 2023 90% · 2024 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SISTAHFRIENDS’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. 1 of the last 7 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
Jacqueline Elizabeth Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SISTAHFRIENDS’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
SISTAHFRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SISTAHFRIENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 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 SISTAHFRIENDS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
SISTAHFRIENDS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SISTAHFRIENDS
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SISTAHFRIENDS: 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 SISTAHFRIENDS?
- SISTAHFRIENDS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being MAX & PAULINE ZIMMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($70,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SISTAHFRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to SISTAHFRIENDS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SISTAHFRIENDS?
- MAX & PAULINE ZIMMER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SISTAHFRIENDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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