California · Nonprofit
The Reset Foundation
The Reset Foundation (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,554 to it, the largest being CHARLES AND HELEN SCHWAB FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $1k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $456k
- Net assets
- $0
What The Reset Foundation does
Mission
Reset's mission is to empower promising individuals involved in the justice system with the skills and opportunities leading to a successful life, thereby freeing their families and communities from the poverty-to-prison cycle.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through November 2017, Reset's residential program offered an alternative to incarceration for court-involved young men between the ages of 18 to 24. We served young men who had been referred by the Alameda and San Francisco County courts, and provided them with housing, transportation, case management, academic, career, medical and mental health support, prosocial activities, and transitional aftercare upon graduation. These services were provided through our residential campus, which was comprised of a leased learning center andleasedresidential housinginthe San Francisco Bay Area. In November 2017, Reset suspended our program and operations. Following that time and into 2018, we worked with our court partners to transition remaining students tohousing, employment, school, and wellness services, and continued to remain connected to our students, providing transitional case management and individualized resources as needed, including court advocacy and regular check-ins in an effort to promote their continued stability and success. On September 28, 2018, the Reset's board of directors made the decision to dissolve the organization. On December 4, 2018, the organization was…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $413k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $350k → $103k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Reset Foundation’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 Reset Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 97% — 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
95% of The Reset Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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.
Organizations like The Reset Foundation
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
79%
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 Reset Foundation: 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 Reset Foundation?
- The Reset Foundation (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,554 to it, the largest being CHARLES AND HELEN SCHWAB FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Reset Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $455,554 in grants to The Reset Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The Reset Foundation?
- CHARLES AND HELEN SCHWAB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Reset Foundation 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 15 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