California · Nonprofit
THINK LOCAL FIRST
THINK LOCAL FIRST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Think Local First does
Mission
Promoting and strengthening locally owned independent businesses in santa cruz county.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
A business league which facilitates promoting and strengthening locally owned independent businesses.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $15k to $13k (−10%).
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.
0% of THINK LOCAL FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $6k.
From the IRS filings of THINK LOCAL FIRST’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THINK LOCAL FIRST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THINK LOCAL FIRST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,589 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,589 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
Organizations like THINK LOCAL FIRST
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THINK LOCAL FIRST: 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 THINK LOCAL FIRST?
- THINK LOCAL FIRST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THINK LOCAL FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to THINK LOCAL FIRST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINK LOCAL FIRST?
- SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINK LOCAL FIRST 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 1 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