California · Nonprofit
The ReCARES Network
The ReCARES Network (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,149 to it, the largest being EAST BAY FOUNDATION ON AGING ($280,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $313k
What The ReCARES Network does
Mission
The primary purpose of The ReCARES Network ReCARES is to prevent the waste of valuable durable medical equipment DME and home healthcare supplies by distributing these items for reuse by others particularly the underserved within our local communities and keeping these items out of landfills. This has remained ReCARES main purpose over its 30 years of operation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
At its sites in Oakland San Francisco and Marin ReCARES collects donations of usable durable medical equipment DME and home healthcare supplies and then redistributes these free of charge to those in need. The volume of our services continued to grow in 2025. We collected over 45,000 items from approximately 4,700 donors. These items were redistributed to more than 11,000 recipients including seniors and people with disabilities. Our dedicated volunteers donated over 5,400 hours of service to achieve these results. ReCARES provides a safety net for people who are unable to get needed DME eg. walkers wheelchairs. Proper DME helps enable recipients to stay in their homes after illness or injury fostering their physical and mental health and allowing them to participate more actively in their communities. ReCARES also expanded collaboration with other agencies in 2025 providing needed items and referrals and helping to build a community of like-minded organizations.
$69,412 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $194k to $313k (+62%).
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 The ReCARES Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $30k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ReCARES Network’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 ReCARES Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ReCARES Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of The ReCARES Network's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ReCARES Network runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The ReCARES Network
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.
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 The ReCARES Network: 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 ReCARES Network?
- The ReCARES Network (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,149 to it, the largest being EAST BAY FOUNDATION ON AGING ($280,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The ReCARES Network have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $297,149 in grants to The ReCARES Network, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The ReCARES Network?
- EAST BAY FOUNDATION ON AGING is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The ReCARES Network 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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