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- IRS nonprofit listing
- No issue
- Revocation
- None
- IRS files
- Agree
- Sanctions
- No match
- IRS bulletin
- No notice
- California
- Not current
- Charity type
- 509(a)(1)
$5.2Mrevenue
FY2025 · +38% in 3 yrs10staff
8 of 8years filed
’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Revenue and spendingRevenueSpending
Against similar nonprofits FY2025
Operating margin19.5%
Months of reserve1.6mo
Revenue growth (annualized)+8.8%
Middle half of peersMedianEllis
Where the money goes FY2025 · $4.1M spent
Programs$2.5M60%Management and general$1.7M40%990 FY2025 · Part IX line 25
Nothing to check in the filings
In its favor2
Growing faster than peers
Revenue up 9% a year since FY2017, faster than half of similar nonprofits.
990 Part I · peer cohortFunders stay
5 of the 8 funders that gave before FY2021 are still giving.
Funders’ 990-PF grant lists24funders
$1.8Ma year, last 3 years
60%from its largest funder
Funder’17’18’19’20’21’22’23The Patterson Family FoundationSince FY2022$1.4M$1.7MThe Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation AKA BLBB CharitableSince FY2019$168k$176k$208k$208k$160kPatterson Family FoundationStopped after FY2021$87k$157k$254k–Orville & Laurene Watts Scholarship FundSince FY2018$48k$43k$49k$46k$64k$64kJedel Family FoundationStopped after FY2020$82k$60k$60k$10k–The Sherman Family FoundationEvery year since FY2017$16k$16k$16k$32k$32k$32k$32kDonor-advised giftsDonors not disclosed$441k$490k$385k$371k$289k$404k$176k4 other fundersUp to $46k a year each$24k$12k$12k$58k$41k$38k
FundedThrough a donor-advised fundStopped