California · Nonprofit
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,597,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($657,921). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency does
Mission
Provide referral help line, couseling, transitional home and supportto victims of domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide information, referrals, counseling and shelter/transitional housing support to south asians with a special focus on helping domestic violence victims and their children
$1,498,098 spent81% of program spending(cal oes elder abuse program) providing counseling and casemanagement, mental health support, and emergency assistance to allelder victims of abuse
$236,841 spent13% of program spending(dvsbp) - domestic violence shelter based program, provide transitionalliving to victims of domestic violence; assist them into independenceand self-sufficiency
$115,889 spent6% of program spendingCounseling-Case Management, Outreach Activities
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,850,828.
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 2022 to 2023, from $940k to $1.8M (+96%).
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 26% · 2018 52% · 2019 44% · 2020 38% · 2021 54% · 2022 48% · 2023 39% · 2024 70% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $152k → $768k.
9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency’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
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 75% · 2019 47% · 2020 28% · 2021 36% · 2022 39% · 2023 34% — 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
56% of South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
97% of South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $965k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency 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
Government funding South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $700k on record.
- Department of Justice$700k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency
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
93% 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 South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency: 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 South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency?
- South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency (California) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,597,628 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($657,921). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,597,628 in grants to South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $657,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Asian Helpline and Referral Agency 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