California · Nonprofit
TOGETHER WE RISE
TOGETHER WE RISE (California) receives grants from 260 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,432,827 to it, the largest being FUND II FOUNDATION ($1,306,500). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 260
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Together We Rise does
Mission
Together We Rise (twr) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of motivated young adults and former foster youth. Our vision is to improve the lives of foster children in america, who often find themselves forgotten and neglected by the public. We collaborate with individuals, companies, and community partners to bring resources to foster youth and use service-learning activities to educate volunteers on issues surrounding the foster care system.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community support - Together We Rise has many programs that benefit children in foster care around the united states. Our goal is to make the transition in foster care easier for the children who are in the system. Since children in foster care are typically given 2 trash bags to transport their belongings, we try to give them our sweet cases instead. A Together We Rise sweet case is a bright blue duffel bag stuffed with a teddy bear, a blanket, a hygiene kit, a coloring book, and crayons, participants around the united states will decorate the sweet cases, stuff them, and then donate it back into their communities to benefit children in foster care in their areas. This is our biggest program, and it is growing every year!
$1,760,813 spent16% of program spendingFoster care support: our mission necessitates that we invest much of our time and limited resources in collaboration with community partners. This brings resources to and improves the lives of america's foster children in all 50 states. Our challenging but rewarding task involves the twr team working with hundreds of foster agencies, social workers, court appointed special advocates (casas), and other partners as we use our limited resources to benefit foster youth across the nation.we coordinate the delivery of goods and services to foster kids throughout the united states. We also sponsor foster/adoption festivals, learning activities to educate volunteers on issues, and any awareness activity focused on youth in foster care.
$8,527,326 spent79% of program spendingTransition support - when children in foster care age out of the system, some of them don't have the resources to travel to school, work, or their homes, most youths that have aged out of the system are left without any means of transportation, so to fix this, Together We Rise donates bikes to children in foster care. We have participants across the united states host build a bike events where teams use tools to build bikes and then donate them back into their community. Participants can choose between 3 sizes of bikes so children of all ages can benefit from this program. Together We Rise wants to ensure that children in foster care have the opportunity to experience childhood by getting to own something as simple as a bike. We particularly want to help older children who are close to the aging out age so they are able to attend school, get to the grocery store, and find employment with a reliable transportation method.
$574,356 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,862,495.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $16M (+25%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TOGETHER WE RISE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.5M.
37 of 260 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 TOGETHER WE RISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 260 funders by total. 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
TOGETHER WE RISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
53% 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 TOGETHER WE RISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 12% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“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 TOGETHER WE RISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
TOGETHER WE RISE draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
TOGETHER WE RISE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 303 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like TOGETHER WE RISE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 TOGETHER WE RISE: 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 TOGETHER WE RISE?
- TOGETHER WE RISE (California) receives grants from 260 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,432,827 to it, the largest being FUND II FOUNDATION ($1,306,500). 96 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOGETHER WE RISE have?
- IRS filings report 260 organizations giving $12,432,827 in grants to TOGETHER WE RISE, 96 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOGETHER WE RISE?
- FUND II FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,306,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOGETHER WE RISE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 260 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing