California · Nonprofit
TEENFORCE
TEENFORCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,694 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($115,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $0
What Teenforce does
Mission
Teenforce is a social enterprise that helps youth gain the skills, habits and work experience to fulfill their potential. We have a particular emphasis on working with current and former foster youth. Our approach is patterned after the for-profit staffing industry, which helps develop relationships with employers and drives revenue to make us self-sustaining.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
We provided work readiness training and job placement services to 272 youth (ages 14 - 24) who worked 37,398 hours and earned $411,000 ($215,000 paid through Teenforce and $196,000 paid directly by Teenforce employers). Our earned revenues were 54% of our total operating expenses, thereby reducing our reliance on donations. Youth were also trained in workplace safety, basic employment regulations, sexual harassment and workplace etiquette.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $295k → $45k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 TEENFORCE’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
TEENFORCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 TEENFORCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 100% — 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
TEENFORCE draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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.
Organizations like TEENFORCE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Silicon Valley Childrens Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEENFORCE: 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 TEENFORCE?
- TEENFORCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,694 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($115,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEENFORCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $339,694 in grants to TEENFORCE.
- Who is the largest funder of TEENFORCE?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEENFORCE 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 7 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