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ST JAMES FAITH LAB

ST JAMES FAITH LAB (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,133 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($314,629). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$611k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$666k
Net assets
$510k
4/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What St James Faith Lab does

Mission

Our mission is to support the functioning and operation of st. James episcopal church, newport beach, ca. St. James episcopal church is creatively building a 21st century, inclusive, relevant and dynamic spiritual community whose mission is spreading the gospel to the world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. St. James faith lab (sjfl) accepts donations and provides the funding to help operate and support the ministry at st. James episcopal church. St. James faith lab helps protect the assets from the diocese from potentially confiscating church funds and assets as has happened to the people at st. James before. St. James faith lab donations to st. James episcopal church helps pay for clergy, building maintenance, supplies, musicians, adult and children's christian educations and other operating expenses. The company also purchases and maintains ownership of equipment utilized at st. James episcopal church such as sound systems, furniture, kitchen and hospitality equipment, choir robes, liturgical accoutrements, etc. In addition to supporting st. James episcopal church to help fulfill its mission, the company maintains a broader voice in the overall church on education, ministry, growth, training and technology issues with a special focus on the christian ethics and technology utilization.

    $188,713 spentof which $150,393 as grants
    98% of program spending
  2. T. James faith lab (sjfl) accepts donations and provides the funding to

    $4,360 spent
    2% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $193,073.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($407k) Expenses 100 ($389k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2019 Revenue 60 ($245k) Expenses 42 ($162k) Net assets 142 ($112k)2020 Revenue 61 ($249k) Expenses 21 ($80k) Net assets 359 ($285k)2022 Revenue 115 ($468k) Expenses 77 ($302k) Net assets 347 ($275k)2023 Revenue 117 ($478k) Expenses 118 ($458k) Net assets 400 ($317k)2024 Revenue 150 ($611k) Expenses 107 ($416k) Net assets 644 ($510k)
201720192020202220232024
Revenue (150)Expenses (107)Net assets (644)Peer revenue range

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 $356k to $510k (+43%).

$143k
$423k
$335k
$316k
$356k
$510k
201720192020202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of ST JAMES FAITH LAB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$83k
’19
$169k
’20
$166k
’22
$20k
’23
$196k
’24
15
months of
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.

201720192020202220232024
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Joined··+1·+0+0
No longer listed··1·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $57k → $62k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 ST JAMES FAITH LAB’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

ST JAMES FAITH LAB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 ST JAMES FAITH LAB.

47%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 78% · 2019 67% · 2020 78% · 2021 77% · 2022 85% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.

“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

79% of ST JAMES FAITH LAB'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. Of the $138k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.

IL
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST JAMES FAITH LAB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin32% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ST JAMES FAITH LAB

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST JAMES FAITH LAB: 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 ST JAMES FAITH LAB?
ST JAMES FAITH LAB (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,133 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($314,629). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ST JAMES FAITH LAB have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $666,133 in grants to ST JAMES FAITH LAB, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST JAMES FAITH LAB?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $314,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST JAMES FAITH LAB 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.

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 6 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