California · Nonprofit
STRIVE FOUNDATION
STRIVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,293,111 to it, the largest being WINDSONG TRUST ($1,425,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Strive Foundation does
Mission
Strive Foundation's primary mission is to provide exemplary academic and guidance to children, youth and their families in the watts community of los angeles. The Strive Foundation provides education, support and development in reading, writing and english literacy; math and cognitive skills; computer and information literacy; culinary and arts; protege resources; development of the moral, creative and entrepreneurial spirit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Strive Foundation provides for an academy-learning environment; and, from a character-is-paramount perspective, the Strive Foundation helps children achieve reading, writing, english-language fluency and math skills proficiency in their grade level. Strive's mission is to provide a sanctuary of instructor, guidance & resources that better equip children to navigate through the problems they face in their challenging community of watts and beyond. Strive serves approximately 157 students daily with an additional 126 students on scholarship ranging from 1st grade through college. We also have 17 students in our youth choir program and 50 students in our guitar class.
$1,449,621 spent$22,790 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,449,621.
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 $3.5M to $5.2M (+49%).
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.
96% of STRIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Claire Cacciapaglia
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $320k → $704k.
9 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 STRIVE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
STRIVE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 44% · 2019 24% · 2020 31% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 28% — 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
40% of STRIVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
94% of STRIVE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
STRIVE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like STRIVE FOUNDATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 STRIVE FOUNDATION: 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 STRIVE FOUNDATION?
- STRIVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,293,111 to it, the largest being WINDSONG TRUST ($1,425,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRIVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $7,293,111 in grants to STRIVE FOUNDATION, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRIVE FOUNDATION?
- WINDSONG TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRIVE FOUNDATION 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 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing