California · Nonprofit
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,308 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Through the Looking Glass does
Mission
The mission of Through the Looking Glass (tlg) is "to provide services to children & families with disabilities,and encourage respectful and empowering services--guided by personal disability experience and disability culture--for families that have children, parents, or grandparents with disability or medical issues." tlg provides trauma-informed mental health, developmental and occupational therapy services, disability adaptations, and early childhood education that support parent/infant or child, and family relationships. Tlg also conducts research and provides professional training to support improved practice with families with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Intervention and consultation services: tlg provides support services to alameda and contra county families with disability, medical, or developmental evelopmental issues in infant, child,parent, expectant parent, or parenting grandparent/caregiver. In 2024, 827 children/youth (birth to 21) received home or clinic visits, providing child development, mental health services, and/or disability adaptations to support infant/parent relationships. Children also attended Through the Looking Glass' inclusive early head start center, attended play groups, or received mental health or developmental consultation requested by other early childhood centers. In addition, more than 900 family members received services or participated in parenting support groups.
$3,940,934 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,940,934.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $3.5M (+83%).
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: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 49% · 2024 39% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Megan Kirshbaum
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $35k → $35k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS’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
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 89% · 2022 80% · 2023 86% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
81% of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.8M on record — $11.8M federal, $7k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.8M
- Educational Services$7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: 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 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS?
- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,308 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $356,308 in grants to THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS?
- SUNLIGHT GIVING 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 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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