California · Nonprofit
THRIVE LEMON GROVE
THRIVE LEMON GROVE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,555 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($81,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Thrive Lemon Grove does
Mission
A proactive community-based multi-sector organization dedicated to advancing public health and safety initiatives through collaborations that elevate the quality of life in Lemon Grove.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Food Give-away; receive monthly food boxes supplemented with meat bread eggs milk and holiday trimmings during Easter Thanksgiving Christmas. Families drive by present identification with address how many are in the family and boxes are given away until all are gone. Food is distributed monthly. 12 months 8460 individuals.
$90,000 spentof which $105,000 as grants64% of program spendingInternational Multicultural Celebrations Black History 600 in attendance: To celebrate the diversity of the City of Lemon Grove to promote racial understanding and healing. Ethnicities include European German Hispanics African Americans and Asians. Each share their music food wear traditional clothing to the enjoyment of all. Food vendors have tables of food representing a culture that can be purchased at each events.Cinco de Mayo,
$50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants35% of program spendingThrive Lemon Grove Community Organic Garden - 43 raised beds are rented out with two saved for senior apartments and low-income housing. Gardening classes are help monthly and renters learn more about small grow bags planting soil and water conservation. Food preparation education classes recipe cards are shared and the community members can purchase items from the mobile food truck.
$1,325 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $141,325.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $8k to $51k (+495%).
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.
89% of THRIVE LEMON GROVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joyce Moore
President Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $82k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 THRIVE LEMON GROVE’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
THRIVE LEMON GROVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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 THRIVE LEMON GROVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
73% of THRIVE LEMON GROVE'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THRIVE LEMON GROVE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THRIVE LEMON GROVE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THRIVE LEMON GROVE: 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 THRIVE LEMON GROVE?
- THRIVE LEMON GROVE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,555 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($81,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THRIVE LEMON GROVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $111,555 in grants to THRIVE LEMON GROVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THRIVE LEMON GROVE?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $81,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THRIVE LEMON GROVE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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