California · Nonprofit
THE COLLEAGUES INC
THE COLLEAGUES INC (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,417,726 to it, the largest being THE OTIS BOOTH FOUNDATION ($540,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $937k
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $856k
What The Colleagues Inc does
Mission
To raise funds to support underserved women, children, and families in our community.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The colleagues room is a space dedicated to reselling donated items, with proceeds directed toward charitable organizations whose missions align with our own.
$568,183 spentof which $419,500 as grants$141,519 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $568,183.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $398k (−65%).
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.
84% of THE COLLEAGUES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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 19 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $228k → $615k.
6 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 THE COLLEAGUES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
THE COLLEAGUES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 37% · 2020 54% · 2021 38% · 2022 17% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of THE COLLEAGUES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 THE COLLEAGUES INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE COLLEAGUES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like THE COLLEAGUES INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 THE COLLEAGUES INC: 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 THE COLLEAGUES INC?
- THE COLLEAGUES INC (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,417,726 to it, the largest being THE OTIS BOOTH FOUNDATION ($540,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLLEAGUES INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,417,726 in grants to THE COLLEAGUES INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLEAGUES INC?
- THE OTIS BOOTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLEAGUES INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 56 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