California · Nonprofit
THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION
THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,059 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($130,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $322k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $303k
- Net assets
- $298k
What The Orinda Association does
Mission
The Orinda Association is dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of life in orinda, promoting awareness and encouraging dialogue among orinda residents on issues of importance to the community, and mobiliizing volunteer efforts to enhance the beauty, character, and security of orinda.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Orinda news: publication of a monthly newspaper that is distributed free of charge to 8800 orinda households and businesses that provides information about local activities, events, businesses, and individuals.
$169,908 spent$169,848 earned by the program65% of program spendingSeniors around town: the senior ride share program provides transportation for orinda seniors who are no longer able to drive and who may not qualify for the county connection link. Transportation is provided by volunteer orinda drivers. The sat program offers ease of use at no cost to riders, door to door transportation to all eligible orinda senior residents. Orinda volunteer drivers using their own personal vehicles provide rides to doctors' appointments, errands, and social events in the lamorida, berkeley, and walnut creek areas, monday through friday between the hours of 9am and 4pm.
$62,277 spent$61,638 earned by the program24% of program spendingFourth of july: organization and presentation of orinda's fourth of july parade through the main streets of orinda and the celebration at the orinda community center. This provides residents with the opportunity to come together as a community to march in the parade or watch as it goes by. Post parade games, music, and food available in the park draws 4,000 - 5,000 residents.
$25,259 spent$46,307 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe Orinda Association hosts a public forum.
$4,364 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,808.
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 2021 to 2022, from $214k to $279k (+30%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $61k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ORINDA ASSOCIATION’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
THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 54% · 2020 73% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — 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
67% of THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
87% of THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION'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 $40k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 ORINDA ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION?
- THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,059 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($130,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $303,059 in grants to THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ORINDA ASSOCIATION 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 12 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